Also known as Locality P
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 62.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maiqueta Member (Playa Grande Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• The Playa Grande Formation consists of a variegated assemblage of rocks and atarts at the base with a brown conglomerate. It attains a maximum thickness of 65 ft at its type locality. The deposit is lenticular lying with a pronounced unconformity on the Las Pailas Formatiion. The Maiqueta Member is exposed south of the Bruscas Fault. 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, brown, gray siltstone and brown, gray shale
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 41571: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chione (Chione) pailasana venus clam |