Also known as Locality O
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 62.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Catia Member (Playa Grande Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• The Playa Grande Formation consists of a variegated assemblage of rocks and atarts at the base with a brown conglomerate. It attains a maximum thickness of 65 ft at its type locality. The deposit is lenticular lying with a pronounced unconformity on the Las Pailas Formatiion. The Catia Member is exposed north of the Bruscas Fault. 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: marine; unlithified, brown, yellow siltstone and fine-grained, medium, gypsiferous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
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 41553: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sedentaria | |
Bivalvia | |
Pecten (Pecten) sp.2, "Pecten (Euvola) ziczag" = Euvola ziczac2, "Lyropecten (Nodipecten) "sp. B"" = Nodipecten2, "Lyropecten (Nodipecten) ? nodosus" = Nodipecten nodosus2, Spondylus americanus2
"Pecten (Euvola) ziczag" = Euvola ziczac2 Linnaeus 1758 scallop Subspecies: Pecten (Euvola) ziczag caboblancoensis
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"Ostrea (Alectryonia) vespertina" = Dendostrea vespertina2, Ostrea (? Alectryonia) caboblanquensis2, Ostrea (Ostrea) lixula2
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Gastropoda | |
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Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium (Antalis) sp." = Antalis
"Dentalium (Antalis) sp." = Antalis Adams and Adams 1854 tusk shell | |
"Cadulus (Polyschides) ? tetraschistus" = Polyschides, Cadulus sp.
"Cadulus (Polyschides) ? tetraschistus" = Polyschides tusk shell
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell |