Where: Ecuador (0.4° S, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 90.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Late Pleistocene or Holocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Sandstone beds about 1.5 m thick.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hertlein in 1932; reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: L. G. Hertlein, 1932. REPOSITORY: CAS.
Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1939. Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 23(24):367-380 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96866: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Tegula snodgrassi snail | |
Diodora inaequalis Sowerby 1835 snail
Fissurella rugosa snail | |
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
Cerithium adustum cerith snail | |
Mitra solitaria mitre shell
Mitra (Strigatella) tristis mitre shell | |
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail | |
Marginella cf. phrygia margin shell | |
Thais patula murex snail | |
Morum tuberculosum Sowerby 1885 snail | |
Cancellaria haemastoma snail | |
"Trivia cf. pulla" = Niveria (Cleotrivia) occidentalis, "Trivia pacifica" = Niveria (Niveria) pacifica
"Trivia cf. pulla" = Niveria (Cleotrivia) occidentalis Schilder 1922 snail
"Trivia pacifica" = Niveria (Niveria) pacifica Gray 1832 snail | |
"Cypraea nigropunctata" = Pseudozonaria nigropunctata
"Cypraea nigropunctata" = Pseudozonaria nigropunctata Gray 1828 cowry | |
Alvania veleroana n. sp., Rissoina dina
Alvania veleroana n. sp. snail
Rissoina dina snail | |
Hipponix barbatus hoof shell
Hipponix grayanus hoof shell
Antisabia panamensis Adams 1852 hoof shell
Cheilea equestris Linnaeus 1758 hoof shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Arca reeveana" = Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana, "Arca gradata" = Barbatia (Acar) gradata
"Arca reeveana" = Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana d'Orbigny 1846 clam
"Arca gradata" = Barbatia (Acar) gradata Broderip and Sowerby 1829 miniature ark | |
"Codakia galapagana" = Ctena galapagana
"Codakia galapagana" = Ctena galapagana Dall 1901 clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Echinoidea | |
"Eucidaris thouarsii" = Cidaris thouarsii
"Eucidaris thouarsii" = Cidaris thouarsii Valencienncs 1846 pencil urchin SUBSPECIES: Eucidaris thouarsii galapagensis
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