NMB Loc. 12824 - Esmeraldas [Esmeraldas Fm]: Early Pliocene, Ecuador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Jung 1989 13 specimens
Jung 1989 24 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Pyramidella sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838
Jung 1989 62 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triphora sp. Blainville 1828
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Cantharus sp. Röding 1798
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Northia (Nicema) sp. (Woodring 1964)
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 19 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Anachis sp. Adams and Adams 1853
Jung 1989 1 specimen
2 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Strombina sp. Mörch 1852
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Jung 1989 27 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831
Jung 1989 10 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Polystira oxytropis (Sowerby 1834)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Jung 1989 8 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Glyphostoma sp. Gabb 1872
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Jung 1989 12 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Jung 1989 15 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Caecum sp. Fleming 1813
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Capulidae
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Jung 1989 14 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp. Gray 1847
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Geukensia sp. Van de Poel 1959
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Jung 1989 76 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Jung 1989 44 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parvilucina sp. (Dall 1901)
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Jung 1989 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Angulus) sp. (Megerle 1811)
Jung 1989 6 specimens
Jung 1989 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Agriopoma sp. Dall 1902
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Jung 1989 5 specimens
Jung 1989 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831
Jung 1989 3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. (Gardner 1926)
Jung 1989 7 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella ornata (d'Orbigny 1845)
Jung 1989 67 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Ecuador
Coordinates: 0.9° North, 79.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.2° North, 77.9° 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:131332
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-23 13:23:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-07-23 13:23:20
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:

42438 P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]