Where: Colombia (10.6° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Pliocene; justification not provided in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136389: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Turritriton gibbosus Broderip 1833 triton shell | |
Marsupina bufo BruguiƩre 1792 frog shell |