Falcón [La Vela Fm]: Pliocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella matarucana
Hodson 1926
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Turritella (Broderiptella) caronensis
(Mansfield 1925)
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Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya falconensis
Hodson and Hodson 1927
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Woodring 1982 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Varicorbula islatrinitatis
(Maury 1925)
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Woodring 1982 | |||||||||
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Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis
(Toula 1909)
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Woodring 1982 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis
(Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
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Woodring 1973 | |||||||||
| recombined as Larkinia grandis | ||||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis colombiensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Coordinates: | 11.0° North, 69.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° North, 69.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | La Vela | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the La Vela Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Pliocene. 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: | 96485 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-09 09:27:39 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-06-09 09:27:39 |
| 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:
| 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] | |
| 13235 | W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 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] |