Punta Gavilan [Punta Gavilan Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Strombina (Lirastrombina) rutschi
(Gibson-Smith 1974)
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Jung 1989 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Trigonostoma (Extractrix) hoerlei
Olsson 1967
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Jung 1977 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Raphitomidae
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Thatcheria sp.
Angas 1877
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Jung 1977 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Poirieria (Paziella) landaui
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Poirieria (Panamurex) rutschi
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Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
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Haustellum donmoorei
Bullis 1964
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| =Murex recurvirostris | ||||||||||
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Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons
(Lamarck 1822)
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Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis
(Sowerby 1850)
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| =Murex domingensis | ||||||||||
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Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi
(Smith 1938)
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| recombined as Murexiella macgintyi | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Coordinates: | 11.5° North, 68.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.3° North, 68.1° West |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Punta Gavilan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit; possibly the Usiacurí Fm (enterer's guess). AGE: Early Pliocene; justification not stated in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: No lithologic data reported. | |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMB |
| Collection method comments: Collected reposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Only includes Muricidae taxa (all known muricids) thus far. See Rutsch (1934), Vokes (1990), Vokes (1992) and Vokes (1994) for further taxa. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41831 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Krause |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-21 09:32:27 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-21 09:32:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11191. | E. H. Vokes. 1996. A new species of Poirieria (Paziella) (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Punta Gavilian Formation, Northern Venezuela. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:67-68 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 59697 | P. Jung. 1977. Two rare gastropod genera from the Pliocene of Venezuela. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 70(3) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] | |
| 26828 | P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 17605 | E. H. Vokes. 1963. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region: Part 1 - Murex sensus stricto. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 1(4):151-163 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |