NMB Loc. 17607 - Quebrada Las Pailas [Maiquetia Mbr, Playa Grande Fm] (Pliocene of Venezuela)

Also known as GS-31-CB

Where: Venezuela (10.6° N, 63.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maiquetia Member (Playa Grande Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Playa Grande Formation, which unconformably overlies the Las Pailas Formation. AGE: Early Pliocene, according to Weisbord (1962). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131270: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail