TU 1397 - Quebrada Camarones: Early/Lower Pliocene, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Amaea (Scalina) ferminiana (Dall 1908)
Dushane 1988
recombined as Scalina ferminiana
Cirsotrema togatum (Hertlein and Strong 1951)
Pitt 1983
Sthenorytis dianae (Hinds 1844)
Dushane 1988
Sthenorytis turbinus (Dall 1908)
Dushane 1988
Gastropoda - Capulidae
Trichotropis vokesae
Pitt and Pitt 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
Vokes 1988 c category
Truncaria pitti
Vokes 1991
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda
Genkaimurex americanus
Vokes 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789
Vokes 1988 r category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Enaeta propecumingii
Pitt and Pitt 1995
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murexiella lappa (Broderip 1833)
Vokes 1988
recombined as Favartia lappa
Murexsul pitti
Vokes 1988
Murexsul sp. Iredale 1915
Vokes 1988
Pteropurpura (Ocinebrellus) ecuadoria
Vokes 1988 c category
Pteropurpura (Pteropurpura) marksi Olsson 1964
Vokes 1988
Ceratostoma notiale
Vokes 1988
Poirieria (Paziella) meridionalis
Vokes 1988
Poirieria (Poirieria) actinophora
Vokes 1988
? Murex (Haustellum) ruthrae
Vokes 1988
original and current combination Haustellum
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) sp. (Swainson 1830)
Vokes 1988
original and current combination Phyllonotus
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) globosus
Vokes 1988
original and current combination Phyllonotus
Hexaplex ambiguus
Vokes 1988
Typhis (Talityphis) latipennis
Vokes 1988
synonym of Typhina
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Harpa americana Pilsbry 1922
Pitt 1983
    = Harpa crenata Swainson 1822
Vokes 1984
Harpa isthmica Vokes 1984
Dushane 1988
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Zonaria (Pseudozonaria) cathyae n. sp. Groves 1997
Groves 1997
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Dalium ecuadorianum (Olsson 1942)
Beu 2010 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ecuador
Coordinates: 1.0° North, 79.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.8° North, 78.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Onzole Member:Esmeraldas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Esmeraldas beds, upper Onzole Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous poorly lithified calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Highly foraminiferal, tuffaceous shales.
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: Shallow-water gravity-flows, which brought the Esmeraldas fauna into the deep water (1000 m) from shallow water, on the order of 75 m.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH,USNM
Collection method comments: Collections reposited in the BMNH, USNM, and Tulane University. Collections BMNH by C.R. Bristow have loc.# CRB 284
Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list only contains species taxonomically described in reference.
Metadata
Also known as:CRB 284; P-100; LACMIP locality 16944
Database number:41757
Authorizer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner Enterer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-20 12:56:23 Last modified:2016-02-01 11:21:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2006-07-20 12:56:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31182. E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
17602 H. Dushane. 1988. Pliocene Epitoniidae of the Esmeraldas beds northwestern Ecuador (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 21:51-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]
57844 L. T. Groves. 1997. A review of cypraeiform gastropods from Neogene strata of northwestern Ecuador, with the description of two new species. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 30(3):147-157 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
11249 W. Pitt. 1983. Two new gastropod occurrences in the Ecuadorian Neogene. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16:155-156 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11265 W. D. Pitt and L.J. Pitt. 1989. A new species of Trichotropis (Gastropoda: Mesogastropoda) from the Esmeraldas beds, Onzole Formation, northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 1989:131-136 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11177 W. D. Pitt and L.J. Pitt. 1995. A new species of Enaeta (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from the Mio-Pliocene of northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 28:123-126 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
31294 E. H. Vokes. 1984. The genus Harpa (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the new world. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 18(1-2):53-60 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11248 E. H. Vokes. 1988. Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Esmeraldas Beds, northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 21(1):1-50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11266 E. H. Vokes. 1989. An unusual addition to the Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Esmeraldas Beds, northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 22:25-26 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11175 E. H. Vokes. 1991. The genus Truncaria (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in the Esmeraldas beds of northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 24:97-100 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]