Puerto Colombia, Atlantico: Middle Miocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella vistana Hodson 1927
Subspecies: T. vistana colombiana
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus domingensis Sowerby 1849
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria dariena Toula 1908
    = Euclia leuzingeri Rutsch 1934
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Surcula nuervagranada
synonym of Turricula
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices (Mammilla) cf. brunnea (Link 1807)
synonym of Polinices hepaticus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama corticosaformis Weisbord 1929
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
recombined as Tucetona pectinata canalis
Subspecies: G. canalis colombiensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Scapharca grandis (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
recombined as Larkinia grandis
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (? Fissidentalium) solidissimum (Pilsbry and Brown 1917)
recombined as Fissidentalium solidissimum
unclassified
Glycymeris lloydsmithi Brown and Pilsbry 1917
recombined as Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Atlantico
Coordinates: 11.0° North, 74.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.4° North, 72.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Puerto Colombia
Regional section:Atlantico
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Marl. Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstone. Unlithified based on observation of figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: No paleonenvironmental data reported, though from apparently from shallow-water siliciclastic sediments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: Collections reposited at Cornell University (now PRI collections). Many collections collected by C.C. Anderson.
Taxonomic list comments:Some lists appear exhaustive, though in cases nomenclature is antiquated, though at species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:60680
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-20 15:03:39 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-20 15:03:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17428. N. E. Weisbord. 1929. Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia. Bulletin of American Paleontology 14(54):1-310 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]

Secondary references:

43469 B. D. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):311-339 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]