Also known as Locality I
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.2° N, 62.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Mare Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• From lower Mare Formation. The lower 10-15 ft are made up of incoherent grits and sands containing many well-preserved fossils. The lower member starts as a pebble to granule gravel or "grit". The Playa Grande and Mare formations of the Cabo Blanco Group are believed to be early Pliocene in age, and the Guaiguaza clay late Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State University
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(214):111-199 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41543: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Sedentaria | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Graptacme) semistriolatum, "Dentalium (? Antalis) sp." = Antalis
Dentalium (Graptacme) semistriolatum tusk shell
"Dentalium (? Antalis) sp." = Antalis Adams and Adams 1854 tusk shell | |
"Cadulus (Polyschides) quadridentatus" = Polyschides
"Cadulus (Polyschides) quadridentatus" = Polyschides tusk shell | |
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"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2, "Cardita (Carditamera) gracilis" = Carditamera2
"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2 Weisbord 1964 clam | |
"Codakia (Jagonia) umbonicostata" = Ctena2
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Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia2, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum2, Papyridea aff. soleniformis2
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Periglypta aff. listeri2, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata2, Chione (? Chione) lacinosa2, "Chione (Lirophora) cultellata" = Lirophora2, "Chione (Lirophora) riomaturensis" = Lirophora (Lirophora) riomaturensis2, Pleiorytis venezuelensis2, Tivela (Planitivela) venezuelana2, Macrocallista maculata2, ? Gouldia diffidentia2, "Pitar (Hysteroconcha) dione" = Hysteroconcha dione2, Pitar (? Nanopitar) marensis2, Transennella caboblanquensis2
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Anadara (Cunearca) cumanensis Dall 1898 ark | |
Glycymeris (Glycymerella) decussata2, Glycymeris (Glycymeris) undata2, "Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata2
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Pecten (Pecten) caribeus2, Pecten (Pecten) maiquetiensis2, "Lyropecten (Nodipecten) "sp. A"" = Nodipecten2, "Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus2, "Chlamys (Leptopecten) desultoria" = Leptopecten2
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Nuculana (Saccella) karlmartini Weisbord 1964 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula (Nucula) venezuelana" = Nucula (Nucula) vieta2
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"Cylichnella mareana" = Acteocina bidentata1
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Crepidula phalaena1, Crepidula avirostra1, Crepidula juliella1, "Crepidula plana triangula" = Crepidula plana1
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"Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa1, ? Anachis impunis1, Anachis (Litoterma) exuta1, "Strombina caboblanquensis" = Strombina (Strombina) pumilio1, "Mazatlania aciculata" = Mazatlania cosentini1, "? Strombina galba" = Mazatlania cosentini1, "Columbella williamgabbi" = Columbella mercatoria1, "Pyrene (Eurypyrene) venezuelanum" = Eurypyrene1
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"Murex (Murex) chrysostomus" = Vokesimurex chrysostoma1, "Murex (Phyllonotus) pomum" = Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1, "Thais (Stramonita) chocolata" = Stramonita chocolata1, "Thais (Stramonita) haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma1
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"Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana lavelana" = Persicula lavelana1, "Persicula (? Rabicea) hodsoni" = Persicula interruptalineata1
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"Oliva (Ispidula) schepmani" = Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona1, Olivella (Niteoliva) minuta1, Olivella (Minioliva) subfilifera1, Olivella (Olivella) venezuelensis1
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"Terebra (Strioterebrum) quadrispiralis" = Strioterebrum quadrispiralis1, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) gatunensis" = Strioterebrum spiriferum1
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"Odostomia (Evalea) antilleana" = Evalea1, "Odostomia (Evalea) mareana" = Evalea1, Odostomia ambigua1
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Strigilla carnaria | |
Strigilla carnaria2 Linnaeus 1758 |