CAS Loc. 306, Usiacuri village [Tuberá Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Atlántico, Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but apparently siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified-unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Andeson

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: F. Andeson, c. 1920's. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88309: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Calliostoma grabaui Maury 1917 top snail
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cartagenensis" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis Pilsbry and Brown 1917 turret shell
"Turritella perattenuata" = Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Heilprin 1886 turret shell
Turritella gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra clethra" = Strioterebrum clethra, "Terebra cirra" = Terebra (Strioterebrum) cirrus
"Terebra clethra" = Strioterebrum clethra Maury 1925 auger snail
"Terebra cirra" = Terebra (Strioterebrum) cirrus Dall 1895 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria scheibei" = Pyruclia scheibei, "Cancellaria moorei" = Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) moorei
"Cancellaria scheibei" = Pyruclia scheibei Anderson 1929 snail
"Cancellaria moorei" = Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) moorei Guppy 1866 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Scapharca) lloydi" = Anadara (Cunearca) lloydi, "Arca (Scapharca) hispaniolana" = Anadara (Cunearca) hispaniolana, "Arca (Anadara) usiacurii n. sp." = Anadara (Grandiarca) usiacurii
"Arca (Scapharca) lloydi" = Anadara (Cunearca) lloydi Olsson 1922 ark
"Arca (Scapharca) hispaniolana" = Anadara (Cunearca) hispaniolana Maury 1917 ark
"Arca (Anadara) usiacurii n. sp." = Anadara (Grandiarca) usiacurii Anderson 1929 ark
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea messor2 Maury 1925 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia dominica" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) dominica1
"Venericardia dominica" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) dominica1 Weisbord 1929 clam