Caujarao Formation (unspecified localities): Tortonian, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Senectus) castanea (Gmelin 1791)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Lithopoma brevispinum (Lamarck 1822)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea centralis (Conrad 1841)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Turritella (Bactrospira) guppyi (Cossmann 1909)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
original and current combination Turritella guppyi
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigiata
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
SUBSPECIES: Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigiata cartagenensis
Turritella (Broderiptella) planigyrata (Guppy 1867)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Modulidae
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
SUBSPECIES: Petaloconchus sculpturatus alcimus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura muriciformis (Broderip 1833)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Sincola) falconensis (Hodson 1931)
Jung 1989
Strombina (Strombina) colinensis (Hodson 1931)
Jung 1989
Strombina (Strombina) carrizalensis Gibson-Smith 1974
Jung 1989
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea camura Guppy 1866
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Semicassis reclusa (Guppy 1873)
Beu 2010
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850
Beu 2010
Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus 1758)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Turritriton domingensis (Gabb 1873)
Beu 2010
Monoplex jackwinorum Beu 2010
Beu 2010
Monoplex lignarius (Broderip 1833)
Beu 2010
Monoplex cercadicus (Maury 1917)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa (Sowerby 1835)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Naticarius canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) venezuelana (Hodson 1927)
Woodring 1959
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 11.0° North, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.7° North, 68.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Caujarao
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Caujarao Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene in Woodring (1982); Late Miocene according to Bolli (1970), Hunter (1978), and Jung (1989); Diaz de Gamero (1977) considered the unit to be correlated with the late Miocene Globorotalia acostaensis Zone [=Tortonian]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite for the formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96470
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-08 21:04:23 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-06-08 21:04:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13359. W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
36423 B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11372 W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]