Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 69.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Pliocene in original text; assigned to Messinain based on the combined presence of Leptopecten coderensis (Pliocene) and Euvola codercola (Late Miocene); following Waller (2011). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within sequence.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson, and G. D. Harris. 1927. Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks. Bulletins of America Paleontology 13(49):1-160 [A. Miller/A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60802: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 23.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pecten coderensis, "Pecten (Amusium) mortoni" = Amusium mortoni, "Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) codercola" = Euvola codercola, Argopecten venezuelanus, Argopecten caucanus, Argopecten levicostatus
"Pecten (Amusium) mortoni" = Amusium mortoni Ravenel 1844 scallop
"Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) codercola" = Euvola codercola Harris 1927 scallop Subspecies: Pecten soror codercola
Argopecten venezuelanus calico scallop 3 Subspecies: Pecten circularis caucanus, Pecten circularis cornellanus, Pecten circularis venezuelanus
Argopecten caucanus calico scallop
Argopecten levicostatus Toula 1909 calico scallop | |
"Anomia venezuelana" = Anomia peruviana
"Anomia venezuelana" = Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny 1846 jingle | |
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"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster |