Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Urumaco Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Urumaco Formation, which overlies the Socorro Formation (Middle-Late Miocene) and is overlain by the Codore Formation (late Miocene-early Pliocene). From Middle member of the Urumaco Formation on the basis of geographic position (Hendy et al., unpublished data). AGE: Late Miocene, based on recent foraminiferal biostratigraphy (Smith et al., 2010) and Sr analyses (Hendy et al., unpublished data); upper Middle Miocene in Hodson & Hodson (1931).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hodson; reposited in the PRI
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 61040: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 29.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella gatunensis, "Turritella bifastigata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata
"Turritella bifastigata" = Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata Nelson 1870 turret shell SUBSPECIES: Turritella bifastigata democraciana
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Bivalvia | |
"Venericardia zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana
"Venericardia zuliana" = Cyclocardia zuliana Hodson 1929 clam SUBSPECIES: Venericardia zuliana maracaibensis
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"Chione (Chione) paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata
"Chione (Chione) paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Chama berjadinensis Hodson 1927 jewel box | |
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis1
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis1 Brown and Pilsbry 1911 clam SUBSPECIES: Glycimeris canalis democraciana
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"Arca (Scapharca) berjadinensis" = Anadara (Cunearca) berjadinensis
"Arca (Scapharca) berjadinensis" = Anadara (Cunearca) berjadinensis Hodson et al. 1927 ark | |
Plicatula densata Conrad 1843 scallop | |
"Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) urumaconis" = Euvola urumaconis3 Hodson et al. 1927 scallop SUBSPECIES: Pecten soror urumaconis
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