NMB Loc. 12822 - Esmeraldas [Esmeraldas Fm]: Early Pliocene, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 31 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Pyramidella sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Jung 1989 68 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Carinodrillia sp. (Dall 1919)
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Scalina ferminiana (Dall 1908)
Jung 1989 10 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Mitra (Subcancilla) sp. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Mitra (Mitra) sp. Lamarck 1798
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Jung 1989 14 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 37 specimens
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 91 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 11 specimens
Jung 1989 349 specimens
Metaphos sp. Olsson 1964
Jung 1989 18 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Pleuroploca sp. Fischer 1884
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Fusinus (Fusinus) sp. Rafinesque 1815
Jung 1989 10 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Dolicholatirus sp. Bellardi 1884
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 1 specimen
82 specimens
44 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius (Uzita) sp. (Adams and Adams 1853)
Jung 1989 11 specimens
Jung 1989 18 specimens
Calophos sp. Woodring 1964
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Fusiturricula sp. Woodring 1928
Jung 1989 32 specimens
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Jung 1989 20 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 15 specimens
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 19 specimens
    = Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908
Landau et al. 2012
Cancellaria (Euclia) sp. (Adams and Adams 1854)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Polystira oxytropis (Sowerby 1834)
Jung 1989 28 specimens
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Aforia ecuadoriana Olsson 1964
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Jung 1989 11 specimens
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Jung 1989 97 specimens
Conus mompichensis Olsson 1964
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Conus sophus (Olsson 1932)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava militaris (Hinds, in Reeve 1843)
Jung 1989 37 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Glyphostoma sp. Gabb 1872
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Jung 1989 12 specimens
Jung 1989 11 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Jung 1989 34 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Enaeta sp. Adams and Adams 1853
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Typhinellus) sp. (Jousseaume 1880)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Monoplex amictus (Reeve 1844)
Beu 2010 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Jung 1989 30 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa sp. Roding 1798
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Capulidae
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Naticarius) sp. (Dumeril 1806)
Jung 1989 43 specimens
Jung 1989 8 specimens
Jung 1989 332 specimens
Sinum sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Jung 1989 29 specimens
Springvaleia sp. Rutsch 1934
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Niso sp. Risso 1826
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 28 specimens
Chlamys woodringi (Spieker 1922)
Jung 1989 16 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Jung 1989 8 specimens
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Jung 1989 9 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Crassinella sp. Guppy 1874
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Arcinella arcinella (Linnaeus 1767)
Jung 1989 9 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Agriopoma sp. Dall 1902
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
Jung 1989 10 specimens
Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella ornata (d'Orbigny 1845)
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ecuador
Coordinates: 1.0° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.3° North, 78.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Esmeraldas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Esmeraldas Formation, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pliocene; upper part of the Globorotalia margarita Zone according to personal communication of F. Rögl. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMB
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Metadata
Database number:131293
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-22 16:12:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-07-22 16:12:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26828. P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

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]
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]