1389 CIT - Bahay River [Canguinsa Sandstone, Vigo Fm]: Pliocene, Philippines
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Philippines | State/province: | Tayabas |
| Coordinates: | 13.0° North, 122.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.9° North, 122.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Vigo | Member: | Canguinsa Sandstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Blue gray sandy marls. Overlies Maglihi Shale (1000-2000 ft thick) and is overlain by the Malumbang Limestone (100-200 ft thick). the Canguinsa Sandstone is 500-1200 ft thick. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very coarse sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Gritty sandstones | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: Disturbed by minor faulting | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Collection method comments: Collected by Popenoe, Pomania, and Albis (1937) | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca. Forams, algae, mammals also mentioned in text, but not listed. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | LACMIP Loc. 10608 | ||
| Database number: | 41531 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-15 22:22:33 | Last modified: | 2016-02-29 00:08:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-15 22:22:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11125. | W.P. Popenoe and R. M. Kleinpell. 1978. Age and stratigraphic significance for Lyellian correlation of the fauna of the Vigo Formation, Luzon, Phillipines. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences 129:1-73 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |