Also known as CRB 284, P-101, LACMIP locality 16882
Where: Esmeraldas, Ecuador (1.0° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 78.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Esmeraldas Member (Onzole Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Early Pliocene. Esmeraldas beds, upper Onzole Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS, LACM, PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited in the CAS, Los Angeles County Museum, PR, USNM, and Tulane University. According to Vokes (1991) the collection by C. Roger Bristow (CRB-284) is from roughly the same locality
Primary reference: W. D. Pitt and L.J. Pitt. 1995. A new species of Enaeta (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from the Mio-Pliocene of northwestern Ecuador. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 28:123-126 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41762: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ceratostoma notiale3, Hexaplex ambiguus3, Hexaplex brassica3, Vitularia salebrosa3, Acanthotrophon sorenseni3, Attiliosa nodulosa3, "Typhis (Talityphis) alatus" = Typhina alata3, "Typhis (Talityphis) latipennis" = Typhina3, Pteropurpura (Ocinebrellus) ecuadoria3, "Murex (Haustellum) recurvirostris" = Vokesimurex recurvirostris3
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Enaeta propecumingii volute | |
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Zonaria (Zonaria) pittorum n. sp.2
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