N.V.P. Blue No. 3892 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Miller and Thompson 1937 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus (Cadulus) aff. phenax Pilsbry and Sharp 1898
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Arca) umbonata (Lamarck 1819)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Eontia aff. centrota (Guppy 1867)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Atrina sp. Gray 1842
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea aff. vaughani insularis Pilsbry and Brown 1917
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula cf. guppyi Woodring 1925
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita paraguanensis (Hodson 1931)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pleiorytis caroniana (Maury 1925)
Macrocallista maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
unclassified
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Arcinella yaquensis (Maury 1917)
    = Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus 1767
Perrilliat and Flores-Guerrero 2011
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Psammacoma cf. falconensis (Hodson and Hodson 1931)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele sp. Schumacher 1817
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trigoniocardia hannai (Olsson 1932)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Landau et al. 2016
Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cocoditana (Hodson 1926)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Gastropoda - Bursidae
    = Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Ficidae
unclassified
    = Haustellum messorium Sowerby 1841
Hendy et al. 2008
Gastropoda - Personidae
    = Distorsio jungi
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
    = Cancellaria (Cancellaria) sp. Lamarck 1799
Jung and Petit 1990
    = Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus aff. imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Conus talis Jung 1965
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
Crassispira henekeni (Sowerby 1850)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira barretti (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cymatophos paraguanensis (Hodson and Hodson 1931)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
    = Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus Guppy 1876
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Cymia cocoditana Hodson 1931
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Falsilyria sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1954
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Scalina pseudoleroyi (Maury 1925)
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcon
Coordinates: 11.9° North, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.5° North, 64.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cantaure
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Clays, sandstone, and limestones of up to 75, thick, although no single section is completely exposed. Collection apparently derived from near middle part of that thickness. Overlies unconformably Cretaceous rocks and is conformably overlain by limestones on middle to upper Miocene. Jung (1965) regarded the collection as early Middle Miocene, though more recent authors, including Vermeij (2001) indicate an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. Formation formerly referred to as "Cerro Pelado". Díaz de Gamero (1974), based on planktic forams, assigned a Lower Miocene age to the Cantaure Formation, placing it in the Globigerinatella insueta and Praeorbulina glomerosa Zones of Bolli (1966) and Zones N7-N8 of Blow (1969). Rey (1996) confirmed this age based on the nannofossil assemblage, and placing it in the Helicosphaera ampliaperta and Sphenolithus heteromorphus Zones, NN4-NN5.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Clay, massive, micaceous, slightly silty, and locally containing abundant fossils.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: Tropical shallow-water assemblage, neritic, no deep-water genera present, normal salinity, perhaps nearby brackish source. Cantaure Formation consists predominantly of siltstones with some muddy sandstones and bioturbated sandstones. The crustacean, foram, mollusk, otolith, and chondrichthyan faunas all support shallow depths (< 50 m), but the relatively fine grain size may indicate offshore-transition rather than shoreface environments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,ichnofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH,NMB,PRI,USNM
Collection method comments: All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Balanus, corals, numerous otoliths, and Calianassa fragments are commonly found, though not listed.
Metadata
Database number:60144
Authorizer:A. Hendy, B. Allen Enterer:A. Hendy, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-03 19:49:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-03 19:49:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
17318. P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43555 P. Jung and R. E. Petit. 1990. Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(334):87-144 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
36423 B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
60454 B. M. Landau, C. M. da Silva, and A. Heitz. 2016. Systematics of the Gastropods of the Lower-Middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology (389-390)1-582 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
27690 A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1937. Beiträge zur Kenntnis tropisch-americkanischer Tertiärmollusken. VI. Some Tertiary nautiloids from Venezuela and Trinidad. Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae 30(1):59-73 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]
43283 M. C. Perrilliat and P. Flores-Guerrero. 2011. Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(3):379-397 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]