Cueva de Tuluni (Triassic of Colombia)

Where: Tolima, Colombia (3.6° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 44.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Payandé Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: O. F. Geyer. 1973. Das präkretazische Mesozoikum von Kolumbien [The Pre-Cretaceous Mesozoic from Colombia]. Geologisches Jahrbuch B 5:1-156 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101066: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Metasibiritidae
 Nautilida - Syringonautilidae
? Oxynautilus sp. Mojsisovics 1902 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
cf. Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina abichi Oppel 1865
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily