Where: Atlantico, Colombia (11.0° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 72.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Marl. Middle Miocene age based on correlation with other Caribbean fossil assemblages and by stratigraphic relations.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
• Collections reposited at Cornell University (now PRI collections). Collected by G.L. greene and N.E. Weisbord.
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1929. Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia. Bulletin of American Paleontology 14(54):1-310 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60681: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cf. gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell | |
Potamides maracaibensis Weisbord 1929 horn snail | |
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana
"Mitra colombiana" = Subcancilla colombiana Weisbord 1929 mitre shell | |
Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850 olive snail | |
"Strombina cyphonotus" = Strombina (Strombina) cyphonotus
"Strombina cyphonotus" = Strombina (Strombina) cyphonotus Pilsbry and Johnson 1911 snail | |
"Drillia puertocolombiana" = Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana
"Drillia puertocolombiana" = Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana Weisbord 1929 snail | |
Serpulorbis ? papulosus Guppy 1866 worm shell |