0.5 km W. of Puedras de Afilar, Atlantico: Middle Miocene, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella lloydsmithi
Pilsbry and Brown 1917
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva cylindrica
Sowerby 1850
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Solenosteira cochlearis
Guppy 1873
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recombined as Solenosteira (Solenosteira) cochlearis | ||||||||||
Subspecies: S. cochlearis magdalenensis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra gatunensis
(Toula 1908)
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recombined as Strioterebrum gatunensis | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Petaloconchus domingensis
Sowerby 1849
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Scapharca grandis
(Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
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recombined as Larkinia grandis | ||||||||||
Subspecies: S. grandis colombiensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris canalis
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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recombined as Tucetona pectinata canalis | ||||||||||
Subspecies: G. canalis colombiensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea messor
Maury 1925
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Subspecies: O. messor colombiensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Chione (Lirophora) latilirata
(Conrad 1841)
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recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata | ||||||||||
Subspecies: C. (L.) latilirata colombiana | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia domingensis
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unclassified
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Glycymeris lloydsmithi
Brown and Pilsbry 1917
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recombined as Tucetona canalis lloydsmithi | ||||||||||
Subspecies: G. lloydsmithi multicostata | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Atlantico |
Coordinates: | 10.9° North, 75.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 10.2° North, 72.5° 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: | 15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | Piedras de Afilar | ||||
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: | 60683 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-20 15:09:50 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 15:09:50 |
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] |