Sua, Ecuador, Santiago Facies (Olsson, 1964) (Miocene of Ecuador)
Where: Esmeraldas, Ecuador (0.9° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 75.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santiago Facies Group, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• no additional information provided
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, coarse-grained, pebbly, brown sandstone
• Hard to soft, generally coarse-grained, brown sandstones, which sometimes are pebbly or with thin beds of conglomerate, grading into sandy shales. The more massive layers are often strongly crossbedded and the formation in this zone of outcrop is faulted repeatedly. Some layers are concretionary.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1964. Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60753: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 22.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• only a few taxa noted from this locality. not likely to be the complete fauna
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"Dosinia (Dosinidia) sua" = Dosinia
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"Lophocardium gurabicum" = Nemocardium (Lophocardium) gurabicum
"Lophocardium gurabicum" = Nemocardium (Lophocardium) gurabicum Maury 1917 cockle | |
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Anadara cf. chiriquiensis Gabb 1861 ark | |
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| Gastropoda | |
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Thericium sp. Monterosato 1809 snail | |
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Melongena cf. consors Sowerby 1850 snail | |
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Potamides cahobasensis horn snail | |
"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira
"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira Conrad 1857 turret shell | |