HB-727 [Tubará Fm] (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 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), suggested to be Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations, but placed in Late Miocene by enterer on the basis of faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From horizon P.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.

Primary reference: M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97692: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell
"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira Conrad 1857 turret shell
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850 olive snail
"Oliva (Oliva) plicata" = Oliva (Strephonella) plicata Guppy 1896 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus molis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cone shell
Conus imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
"Drillia gatunensis" = Clathrodrillia gatunensis, "Drillia henekeni" = Hindsiclava henekeni
"Drillia gatunensis" = Clathrodrillia gatunensis Toula 1909 snail
"Drillia henekeni" = Hindsiclava henekeni Sowerby 1850 snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra gatunensis" = Strioterebrum gatunensis Toula 1908 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria codazzii" = Euclia codazzii, Cancellaria sp.
"Cancellaria codazzii" = Euclia codazzii Anderson 1929 snail
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficus (Pyrula) colombiana Anderson 1929 fig shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
"Bursa crassa" = Marsupina bufo
"Bursa crassa" = Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell
SUBSPECIES: Bursa crassa colombiana
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica guppyana" = Stigmaulax guppiana
"Natica guppyana" = Stigmaulax guppiana Toula 1909 moon snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 clam
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
"Cyrena falconensis" = Polymesoda falconensis
"Cyrena falconensis" = Polymesoda falconensis Hodson 1931 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata Guppy 1866 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Clementia) dariena Conrad 1855 venus clam
"Venus (Chione) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam
SUBSPECIES: Venus (Chione) latilirata colombiana
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita caribbeanensis, "Cardita (Venericardia) zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana
Cardita caribbeanensis Olsson 1922 clam
"Cardita (Venericardia) zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana Hodson 1929 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella (Eucrassatella) trinitaria" = Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) trinitaria
"Crassatella (Eucrassatella) trinitaria" = Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) trinitaria Maury 1925 clam
SUBSPECIES: Crassatella (Eucrassatella) trinitaria venezuelana