Cabo Pasado, Ecuador, Santiago Facies (Olsson, 1964) (Miocene of Ecuador)

Where: Manabi, Ecuador (2.7° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 76.3° 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, yellow, blue sandstone and lithified, tuffaceous, gray sandstone

• Cliffs of coarse yellow and blue sandstones, some fossiliferous layers

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 60769: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 22.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

• only some of the species are listed
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria (Pyruclia) sp." = Pyruclia
"Cancellaria (Pyruclia) sp." = Pyruclia Olsson 1932 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus cf. recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus
"Conus cf. recognitus" = Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus Guppy 1867 cone shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Diluvarca) pasada Olsson 1964 ark
new species
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Psammacoma lamproleuca Pilsbry and Lowe 1932 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Clementia (Clementia) dariena Conrad 1855 venus clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata Valenciennes 1839 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina (Paslucina) follis Olsson 1964 clam
new species
 Carditida - Crassatellidae