Where: Falcon, Venezuela (10.8° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• AGE: Miocene in original text; Late Miocene, based on the presence of Euvola urumaconis; following Waller (2011).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)
Primary reference: F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson, and G. D. Harris. 1927. Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks. Bulletins of America Paleontology 13(49):1-160 [A. Miller/A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61027: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 29.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella berjadinensis, "Turritella bifastigata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata
Turritella berjadinensis Hodson 1926 turret shell With one subspecies: Turritella berjadinensis colinensis
"Turritella bifastigata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell Subspecies: Turritella bifastigata democraciana
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Polinices subporcana moon snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis1
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis1 Brown and Pilsbry 1911 clam With one subspecies: Glycimeris canalis democraciana
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Plicatula densata Conrad 1843 scallop | |
Argopecten venezualanus2, Argopecten levicostatus2, "Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) urumaconis" = Euvola urumaconis2
Argopecten venezualanus2 Hodson and Hodson 1927 calico scallop Two Subspecies: Pecten circularis cornellanus, Pecten circularis venezuelanus
"Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) urumaconis" = Euvola urumaconis2 Hodson et al. 1927 scallop Subspecies: Pecten soror urumaconis
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"Chione (Lirophora) falconensis" = Lirophora (Lirophora) falconensis, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata
"Chione (Lirophora) falconensis" = Lirophora (Lirophora) falconensis Hodson et al. 1927 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam |