Also known as Locality I

Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 63.3° W)

• 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/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41543: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004

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