Where: Colombia (12.3° N, 71.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit, but unlikely to belong to the Castilletes Fm; lithostratigraphic relationships are not reported. AGE: Stated by Bürgl to be Holocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy and stratal position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List from a bed 2 m in elevation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone and unlithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Bürgl
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Presumably H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: H. Bürgl. 1960. Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):129-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97680: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gastropoda | |
Lucapina suffusus snail | |
Melongena melongena Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch | |
"Turritella variegata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) variegata
"Turritella variegata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) variegata Linnaeus 1758 turret shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Pecten ziczag" = Euvola ziczac, Nodipecten nodosus
"Pecten ziczag" = Euvola ziczac Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis
"Codakia orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Cardium (Laevicardium) venustum" = Laevicardium venustulum, Americardia media
"Cardium (Laevicardium) venustum" = Laevicardium venustulum Gabb 1873 cockle
Americardia media Linnaeaus 1758 cockle | |
"Dosinia concentrica" = Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica, "Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
"Dosinia concentrica" = Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica Born 1778 venus clam
"Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam |