Caujarao Formation (unspecified localities) (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 68.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Caujarao Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• 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.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96470: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea centralis3 Conrad 1841 slipper shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea3 Guppy 1866 fig shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura muriciformis3 Broderip 1833 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Strombina) carrizalensis2 Gibson-Smith 1974 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa1 Sowerby 1835 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Semicassis reclusa1 Guppy 1873 snail
Cassis sulcifera1 Sowerby 1850 snail
Cypraecassis testiculus1 Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Malea camura1 Guppy 1866 tun shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Monoplex cercadicus1 Maury 1917 triton shell
Monoplex lignarius1 Broderip 1833 triton shell
Monoplex jackwinorum1 Beu 2010 triton shell
Turritriton domingensis1 Gabb 1873 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi1 Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
Distorsio clathrata1 Lamarck 1816 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Petaloconchus sculpturatus3 Lea 1846 worm shell
SUBSPECIES: Petaloconchus sculpturatus alcimus
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticarius canrena3 Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Polinices stanislasmeunieri3 Maury 1917 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Bactrospira) guppyi" = Turritella guppyi3 Cossmann 1909 turret shell
Turritella abrupta3 Spieker 1922 turret shell
Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigiata3 turret shell
SUBSPECIES: Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigiata cartagenensis
Turritella (Broderiptella) planigyrata3 Guppy 1867 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Modulidae
Modulus vermeiji3 Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Turbo (Senectus) castanea3 Gmelin 1791 snail
Lithopoma brevispinum3 Lamarck 1822 snail