Also known as Cucurrupi beds
Where: Colombia (4.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 76.5° 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 93726: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
"Turris (Gemmula) vanningeni" = Gemmula turrid | |
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"Phos (Antillophos) mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus
"Phos (Antillophos) mexicanus" = Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus Bose 1906 true whelk | |
"Pyrene (Strombina) ohomachii" = Strombina (Strombina) cyphonotus
"Pyrene (Strombina) ohomachii" = Strombina (Strombina) cyphonotus Pilsbry and Johnson 1911 snail | |
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"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira
"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira Conrad 1857 turret shell SUBSPECIES: Turritella altilira chiriquiensis
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Bivalvia | |
"Aloidis hexacyma" = Hexacorbula hexacyma
"Aloidis hexacyma" = Hexacorbula hexacyma Brown and Pilsbry 1913 clam |