HB-728 [Tubará Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 74.3° 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; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.

Primary reference: M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133223: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea messor Maury 1925 oyster
SUBSPECIES: Ostrea messor colombiensis
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Tellina (Angulus) democraciana" = Angulus democracianus
"Tellina (Angulus) democraciana" = Angulus democracianus Hodson 1931 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
"Labiosa (Raeta) undulata" = Raeta undulata
"Labiosa (Raeta) undulata" = Raeta undulata Gould 1851 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus (Chione) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
"Venus (Chione) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata
"Echinochama antiquata" = Arcinella antiquata Guppy 1866 jewel box
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
"Distorsio (Distorsio) clathratus" = Distorsio clathrata
"Distorsio (Distorsio) clathratus" = Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail
SUBSPECIES: Distorsio (Distorsio) clathratus gatunensis
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena consors Sowerby 1850 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana Weisbord 1929 mitre shell
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium guppyi Gabb 1873 snail