Between Las Perdices and Puerto Colombia, Atlantico: Middle Miocene, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Potamides maracaibensis
Weisbord 1929
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella cf. gatunensis
Conrad 1857
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Turritella altilirata
Grzybowski 1899
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| Subspecies: T. altilirata atlanticensis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva cylindrica
Sowerby 1850
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Drillia puertocolombiana
Weisbord 1929
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| recombined as Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Strombina cyphonotus
Pilsbry and Johnson 1911
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| recombined as Strombina (Strombina) cyphonotus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Mitra colombiana
Weisbord 1929
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| recombined as Subcancilla colombiana | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis ? papulosus
(Guppy 1866)
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| 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: | Las Perdices-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: | brown unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Light brown 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). Collected by G.L. greene and N.E. Weisbord. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Some lists appear exhaustive, though in cases nomenclature is antiquated, though at species resolution. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60681 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-20 15:04:34 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 15:04:34 |
| 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] |