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/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: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
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"Tegula (Agathistoma) puntagordanum" = Agathistoma3, "Tegula (Agathistoma) trilirata" = Agathistoma3
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Crepidula phalaena3, Crepidula avirostra3, Crepidula juliella3, Crepidula plana3, "Crepidula (Bostrycapulus) aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus3
"Crepidula (Bostrycapulus) aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus3 Gmelin 1791 slipper shell Subspecies: Crepidula (Bostrycapulus) aculeata venezuelana
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"Oliva (Ispidula) schepmani" = Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona3, Olivella (Olivella) venezuelensis3, Olivella (Minioliva) subfilifera3, Olivella (Niteoliva) minuta3
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"Thais (Stramonita) chocolata" = Stramonita chocolata3, "Thais (Stramonita) haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma3, "Murex (Phyllonotus) pomum" = Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum3, "Murex (Murex) chrysostomus" = Vokesimurex chrysostoma3
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"Persicula (Rabicea) interruptelinata" = Persicula3, Persicula lavelana2, "Persicula (? Rabicea) hodsoni" = Persicula interruptalineata3
"Persicula (Rabicea) interruptelinata" = Persicula3 snail Subspecies: Persicula (Rabicea) interruptelinata mareana
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"Fasciolaria (? Pleuroploca) crassinoda" = Pleuroploca3, Fusinus closter3, "Fusinus marensis" = Fusinus dilectus3
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"Mazatlania aciculata" = Mazatlania cosentini3, "? Strombina galba" = Mazatlania cosentini3, "Strombina caboblanquensis" = Strombina (Strombina) pumilio3, ? Anachis impunis3, Anachis (Litoterma) exuta3, "Columbella williamgabbi" = Columbella mercatoria3, "Pyrene (Eurypyrene) venezuelanum" = Eurypyrene3, "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa3
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Conus (Leptoconus) jaspideus3 Gmelin 1791 cone shell Subspecies: Conus (Leptoconus) jaspideus caboblanquensis
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"Terebra (Hastula) hastata" = Hastula hastata3, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) quadrispiralis" = Strioterebrum quadrispiralis3, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) gatunensis" = Strioterebrum spiriferum3
"Terebra (Hastula) hastata" = Hastula hastata3 Gmelin 1791 auger snail Subspecies: Terebra (Hastula) hastata mareana
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"Cylichnella mareana" = Acteocina bidentata3
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Odostomia ambigua3, "Odostomia (Evalea) antilleana" = Evalea3, "Odostomia (Evalea) mareana" = Evalea3
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Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Nucula) venezuelana" = Nucula (Nucula) vieta4
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Nuculana (Saccella) karlmartini Weisbord 1964 pointed nut clam | |
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"Cardita (Carditamera) gracilis" = Carditamera4, "Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi4
"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi4 Weisbord 1964 clam | |
"Lucina (Cavulinga) trisulcata" = Cavilinga trisulcata4 Conrad 1841 clam Subspecies: Lucina (Cavulinga) trisulcata blanda
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Macrocallista maculata4, "Chione (Lirophora) cultellata" = Lirophora4, "Chione (Lirophora) riomaturensis" = Lirophora (Lirophora) riomaturensis4, Periglypta aff. listeri4, Chione (? Chione) lacinosa4, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata4, ? Gouldia diffidentia4, "Pitar (Hysteroconcha) dione" = Hysteroconcha dione4, Pitar (? Nanopitar) marensis4, Transennella caboblanquensis4, Tivela (Planitivela) venezuelana4, Pleiorytis venezuelensis4
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Papyridea aff. soleniformis4, Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia4, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum4
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Glycymeris (Glycymeris) undata4, Glycymeris (Glycymerella) decussata4, "Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata4
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Anadara (Cunearca) cumanensis Dall 1898 ark | |
"Ostrea (Alectryonia) vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina4 Conrad 1855 oyster Subspecies: Ostrea (Alectryonia) vespertina venezuelana
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"Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus4, "Pecten (Euvola) ziczag" = Euvola ziczac4, "Chlamys (Leptopecten) desultoria" = Leptopecten4, Pecten (Pecten) caribeus4, Pecten (Pecten) maiquetiensis4, "Lyropecten (Nodipecten) "sp. A"" = Nodipecten4
"Pecten (Euvola) ziczag" = Euvola ziczac4 Linnaeus 1758 scallop Subspecies: Pecten (Euvola) ziczag caboblancoensis
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Scaphopoda | |
"Cadulus (Polyschides) quadridentatus" = Polyschides
"Cadulus (Polyschides) quadridentatus" = Polyschides tusk shell | |
Dentalium (Graptacme) semistriolatum, "Dentalium (? Antalis) sp." = Antalis
Dentalium (Graptacme) semistriolatum tusk shell
"Dentalium (? Antalis) sp." = Antalis Adams and Adams 1854 tusk shell | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |
Strigilla carnaria | |
Strigilla carnaria4 Linnaeus 1758 |