C48B Uriba, Guajira Peninsula, Columbia (Eocene of Colombia)

Where: La Guajira, Colombia (11.7° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 65.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• (General comments indicate that the bulk of early Tertiary sediments in the region are limestones of shallow water or coastal origin together with some shale).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the ANSP

• The fossils were collected by Dr. Pierre Butticaz. They were submitted to the Academy of Natural Sciences by Ben F. Uhl, President of the Conorada Petroleum Oil Company.

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson and H.G. Richards. 1961. Some Tertiary fossils from Goajira peninsula of Colombia. Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 350:1-15 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42768: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 05.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericor hornii" = Venericardia (Pacificor) hornii
"Venericor hornii" = Venericardia (Pacificor) hornii Gabb 1864 clam
Venericor hornii subsp.