Puna Island (Pliocene of Ecuador)

Also known as Isla Puná

Where: Ecuador (2.8° S, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 79.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Authors state that the presence of certain extinct species suggest that a Pliocene age is more likely than a Pleistocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Fossils occur in a silty sand, from an unknown part of the succession.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty, carbonaceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow water and sand beach types.
• LITHOLOGY: Silty sands, rusty-colored, containing lignitic debris, sometimes cross-bedded.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Boggs & Olsson in 1937

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Boggs, O.D. and Olsson, A.A., 1937. RESPOSITORY:

Primary reference: H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97638: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Mollusca, although further collection should lengthen faunal list. REPOSITORY: Presumably the ANSP.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny 1846 jingle
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca cf. zorritoensis" = Anadara (Cunearca) zorritoensis, "Arca emarginata" = Anadara (Rasia) emarginata
"Arca cf. zorritoensis" = Anadara (Cunearca) zorritoensis Spieker 1922 ark
[entered as Arca zorritensis]
"Arca emarginata" = Anadara (Rasia) emarginata Sowerby 1833 ark
 Arcida - Noetiidae
Noetia (Noetia) magna MacNeil 1938 clam
SUBSPECIES: Noetia reversa magma
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera
"Cardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera Sowerby 1833 cockle
 Cardiida - Donacidae
"Donax punaensis" = Donax (Paradonax) gracilis
"Donax punaensis" = Donax (Paradonax) gracilis Hanley 1845 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices (Polinices) limi Pilsbry 1931 moon snail
SUBSPECIES: Polinices rapulum limi
"Natica unifasciata" = Natica (Naticarius) unifasciata Lamarck 1822 moon snail
"Natica catenata" = Natica (Natica) grayi Philippi 1852 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Oliva undatella" = Oliva (Strephonella) undatella
"Oliva undatella" = Oliva (Strephonella) undatella Lamarck 1810 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Cantharus elegans" = Antillophos elegans
"Cantharus elegans" = Antillophos elegans Guppy 1866 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria corrugata" = Massyla corrugata, "Cancellaria bulbulus" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) bulbulus
"Cancellaria corrugata" = Massyla corrugata Hinds 1843 snail
"Cancellaria bulbulus" = Cancellaria (Pyruclia) bulbulus Sowerby 1832 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella goniostoma" = Turritella gonostoma
"Turritella goniostoma" = Turritella gonostoma Valenciennes 1832 turret shell