Punta Pua [Tubará Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Bolívar, Colombia (10.6° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 74.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but apparently siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified-unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: UCMP.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1968. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part IV - Hexaplex and Murexiella. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 6(3):85-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92788: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) etheringtoni n. sp.
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) etheringtoni n. sp. Vokes 1968 murex snail