HB-712 [Tubará Fm] (Pliocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (10.8° N, 75.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 11.0° N, 73.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubará Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tubará Formation, which overlies the Las Pedices Group (Early Miocene), and is overlain by the Galapa Group (Late Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene, according Barrios (1960), but assigned by the enterer to the Early Pliocene based on more recent biostratigraphic correlations. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Museo Geológico Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.

Primary reference: M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97689: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis, "Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata" = Lamelliconcha circinata, "Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) casta" = Lamelliconcha casta
Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis Conrad 1855 venus clam
"Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata" = Lamelliconcha circinata Born 1778 venus clam
"Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) casta" = Lamelliconcha casta Pilsbry and Brown 1917 venus clam