C119B Guatchari, Guajira Peninsula, Columbia (Oligocene of Colombia)

Where: La Guajira, Colombia (12.3° N, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 67.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

• No specific information provided other than the Lima specimen is filled with a limestone matrix and the Ostrea specimen contains specks of black shale. (General comments indicate that the bulk of early Tertiary sediments in the region are limestones of shallow water or coastal origin together with some shale).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the ANSP

• The fossils were collected by Dr. Pierre Butticaz. They were submitted to the Academy of Natural Sciences by Ben F. Uhl, President of the Conorada Petroleum Oil Company.

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson and H.G. Richards. 1961. Some Tertiary fossils from Goajira peninsula of Colombia. Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 350:1-15 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42772: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 05.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Acesta) goajira n. sp." = Acesta (Acesta) goajira
"Lima (Acesta) goajira n. sp." = Acesta (Acesta) goajira Olsson and Richards 1961 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea (Pycnodonte) gatunensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea (Pycnodonte) gatunensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster
Ostrea (Pycnodonte) gatunensis aguaclarensis