Also known as Cucurrupi beds

Where: Colombia (4.3° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Munguidó Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Cucurrupi beds", which de Porta (2003) refers to the upper Munguidó Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not reported. AGE: Miocene in Oinomkado, but referred to Pliocene by de Porta (2003). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within upper part of the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Ohomachi in 1938

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: S. Ohomachi, 1938. REPOSITORY: Imperial Geological Survey of Japan.

Primary reference: T. Oinomikado. 1939. Miocene Mollusca from the Neighbourhood of Cucurrupi, Department of Chocó, Colombia. Transactions of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 46:617-630 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93723: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.01.2010

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