Tubera, Atlantico: Middle Miocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella lloydsmithi Pilsbry and Brown 1917
Turritella vistana Hodson 1927
Subspecies: T. vistana colombiana
Turritella cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917
recombined as Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis ? papulosus (Guppy 1866)
Petaloconchus domingensis Sowerby 1849
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra cf. limonensis Olsson 1922
recombined as Fusimitra limonensis
Mitra colombiana Weisbord 1929
recombined as Subcancilla colombiana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Solenosteira falconensis Weisbord 1929
recombined as Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) falconensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina colombiana Weisbord 1929
recombined as Sincola (Dorsina) colombiana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Conomitra caribbeana Weisbord 1929
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Xancus magdalenensis Weisbord 1929
recombined as Turbinella magdalenensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria dariena Toula 1908
    = Euclia leuzingeri Rutsch 1934
Landau et al. 2012
Cancellaria epistomifera Guppy 1876
Subspecies: C. epistomifera acuticarinata
    = Bivetiella codazzii
Landau et al. 2012
Pyruclia scheibei (Anderson 1929)
Jung 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris albida (Perry 1811)
Suspecies: T. albida virgo=Polystira
    = Pleurotoma barretti Guppy 1866
Hendy et al. 2008
recombined as Polystira barretti
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus colombiensis Weisbord 1929
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra ? isaacpetiti Maury 1925
recombined as Terebra (Oreoterebra) isaacpetiti
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa crassa (Dillwyn 1817)
synonym of Marsupina bufo
Subspecies: B. crassa dolumbiana
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices (Mammilla) cf. brunnea (Link 1807)
synonym of Polinices hepaticus
Natica cuspidata Guppy 1910
recombined as Natica (Natica) cuspidata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatellites reevei Gabb 1873
recombined as Eucrassatella (Eucrassatella) reevei
Subspecies: C. reevei pleurarostra
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia terryi Olsson 1922
recombined as Cyclocardia terryi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
? Dermatomya harrisi Weisbord 1929
synonym of Trinitasia sanctiandreae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama corticosaformis Weisbord 1929
Echinochama antiquata (Guppy 1866)
recombined as Arcinella antiquata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris tumefactus Pilsbry and Brown 1917
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus colombiensis Weisbord 1929
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (? Fissidentalium) solidissimum (Pilsbry and Brown 1917)
recombined as Fissidentalium solidissimum
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Atlantico
Coordinates: 10.8° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.1° North, 72.4° 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:Tubera
Regional section:Atlantico
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstone. Poorly lithified 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:60684
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-20 15:14:33 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-20 15:14:33
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:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]