Tubará CT 25 (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Arroyo de las Piedras

Where: Atlántico, Colombia (10.9° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Redmond's zone I

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, black, sandy claystone

• "Blue-black clay with fine sand-laminae"

Size class: microfossils

Collected by W. A. Van Den Bold

• Lousiana State University collection

Primary reference: W. A. van den Bold. 1966. Upper Miocene Ostracoda from the Tubará Formation (northern Colombia). Micropaleontology 12(3):360-364 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93904: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella polita ostracod
also a variant form