Also known as Locality G
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 63.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mare Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• From upper Mare Formation. These silts overlie the coarser sediments at the base of the Mare Formation. The Playa Grande and Mare formations of the Cabo Blanco Group are believed to be early Pliocene in age, and the Guaiguaza clay late Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, brown siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State University
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(214):111-199 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41542: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Ennucula) mareana" = Ennucula, "Nucula (Nucula) venezuelana" = Nucula (Nucula) vieta
"Nucula (Ennucula) mareana" = Ennucula nut clam
"Nucula (Nucula) venezuelana" = Nucula (Nucula) vieta Guppy 1874 nut clam | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) axelolssoni" = Saccella, Nuculana (Saccella) karlmartini
"Nuculana (Saccella) axelolssoni" = Saccella pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Saccella) karlmartini Weisbord 1964 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium (Antalis) disparile" = Paradentalium disparile
"Dentalium (Antalis) disparile" = Paradentalium disparile d'Orbigny 1847 tusk shell |