Where: Colombia (11.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 74.2° 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; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Andeson
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: F. Andeson, c. 1920's. REPOSITORY: California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Primary reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88294: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium (Laevicardium) gorgasi" = Laevicardium serratum
"Cardium (Laevicardium) gorgasi" = Laevicardium serratum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis
"Ostrea haitensis" = Hyotissa haitensis Sowerby 1850 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotoma barretti" = Polystira barretti
"Pleurotoma barretti" = Polystira barretti Guppy 1866 turrid | |
"Polinices subclausa" = Polinices hepaticus
"Polinices subclausa" = Polinices hepaticus Röding 1798 moon snail | |
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni
"Calliostoma olssoni" = Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni Maury 1925 top snail | |
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial |