Bayabas River, AGT2 (Pliocene of Philippines)

Where: Bulacan, Philippines (15.0° N, 121.1° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 121.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• two beds from the lower Tartaro Formation, late Early Pliocene age from nannofossil analyses (Kameo 2005)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; sandstone

• intertidal to subtidal, patchy coral mounds are also present
• fine-grained sandstone above coral bed

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Kase and Y. M. Aguilar. 2006. Bulacanites obtusiplicatus gen. et sp. nov., a large lucinid bivalve (Mollusca) from the Pliocene of central Luzon, Philippines. Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo 44:175-183 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96677: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Cerithium jonkeri" = Clava (Proclava) jonkeri Martin 1879 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena gigas Beets 1941 snail
Volema sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Placunidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bulacanites obtusiplicatus n. gen. n. sp. Kase and Aguilar 2006 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Circe sp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam