Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Andres Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Geister. 1975. Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B 15:1-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 73797: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar | |
Echinolampas sp. Gray 1825 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail | |
? Fasciolaria sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Semicassis sp. Mörch 1852 snail | |
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anodontia (Anodontia) sp. Link 1807 clam | |
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam | |
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
"Chlamys (Argopecten) sp." = Argopecten Monterosato 1889 calico scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop |