Also known as GS-002A-FLCN

Where: Venezuela (11.5° N, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 68.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Punta Gavilan Formation (Cubagua Group), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Punta Gavilán Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early Pliocene; this has been correlated with the Globorotalia margarita Zone by Diaz de Gamero (1970), which is early Pliocene in age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. & W. Gibson-Smith in 1973; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: J. & W. Gibson-Smith, 1973. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: J. Gibson-Smith and W. Gibson-Smith. 2012. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131241: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.07.2012

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