Also known as PJ 0956
Where: Ecuador (0.9° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 77.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Borbon Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Borbon Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Esmeraldas Fm (Pliocene). AGE: Middle Miocene, on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy; nannofossil zones N11-13; planktonic zones N13-N14. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung in 1971; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: P. Jung, 1971. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 134904: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 true whelk |