Falcón [La Rosa Fm]: Early/Lower Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella venezuelana Hodson 1926
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Siratus) quirosensis
Vokes 1990
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Sincola (Dorsina) quirosana (Hodson 1931)
Jung 1994
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Vasum haitense (Sowerby 1850)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
recombined as Vasum haitensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Microdrillia trina Mansfield 1925
Woodring 1970
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Crassispira (Hindsiclava) consors (Sowerby 1850)
Woodring 1970
recombined as Hindsiclava consors
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 11.0° North, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 66.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Rosa
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the La Rosa Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
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:96484
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-09 09:24:04 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-06-09 09:24:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11306. W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19070 P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [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]
36459 E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]