Sta. Clara (Oligocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (6.9° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• fine peloidal and detrital micrite, and shows evidence of bioturba- tion. Pyrite-rimmed dissolution features are common, and there are occasional small voids that lack rim cements

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. J. Maury. 1912. A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205111: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
? Nucinella sp. Wood 1850 Nut Clam
 Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
Pliocardia sp. Woodring 1925 clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Elongatolucina sp. Gill and Little 2013 clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Chilodontaidae