Also known as Locality E

Where: Tayabas, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mare Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• From upper Mare Formation. These silts overlie the coarser sediments at the base of the Mare Formation. 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: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, brown siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State UniversityExhaustive for mollusca, and serpulids

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 41568: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004

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