Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 74.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: UsiacurĂ Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit; possibly the UsiacurĂ Fm (enterer's guess). AGE: Early Pliocene; justification not stated in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Smithsonian (USNM).
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124677: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2012, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea matsoni n. sp.
Septastrea matsoni n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Strombina (Lirastrombina) rutschi Gibson-Smith 1974 snail
Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum Guppy 1874 snail |