Re #1148 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium (Dentalium) bocasense
Olsson 1922
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unclassified
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Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis
Hodson 1927
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Gastropoda
- Ficidae
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unclassified
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= Haustellum messorium
Sowerby 1841
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Hendy et al. 2008 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Scapharca) cf. spiekeri
(Olsson 1932)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Cyclinella venezuelana
Hodson 1927
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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? Psammacoma cf. falconensis
(Hodson and Hodson 1931)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trigoniocardia hannai
(Olsson 1932)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni
(Rutsch 1934)
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Neverita paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Natica (Naticarius) canrena antinacca
(Cossmann 1924)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turbinellidae
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Turbinella falconensis
(Hodson 1931)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum (Prunum) quirosense
(Hodson 1927)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Eupleura kugleri
Jung 1965
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cymatophos paraguanensis
(Hodson and Hodson 1931)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena melongena consors
(Sowerby 1850)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva (Oliva) cf. cylindrica
(Sowerby 1850)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus aff. imitator
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Conus talis
Jung 1965
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Polystira barretti
(Guppy 1866)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Pseudomelatomidae
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Crassispira henekeni
(Sowerby 1850)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera
(Sowerby 1849)
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Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa
Olsson 1932
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Fusiturricula jaquensis
(Sowerby 1850)
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Gastropoda
- Eocypraeidae
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella matarucana
Hodson 1926
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Turritella cocoditana
(Hodson 1926)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
Coordinates: | 11.9° North, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 12.5° North, 64.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cantaure | ||||
Regional section: | Paraguana | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Clays, sandstone, and limestones of up to 75, thick, although no single section is completely exposed. Collection apparently derived from near middle part of that thickness. Overlies unconformably Cretaceous rocks and is conformably overlain by limestones on middle to upper Miocene. Jung (1965) regarded the collection as early Middle Miocene, though more recent authors, including Vermeij (2001) indicate an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. Formation formerly referred to as "Cerro Pelado". |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | micaceous,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Clay, massive, micaceous, slightly silty, and locally containing abundant fossils. | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: Tropical shallow-water assemblage, neritic, no deep-water genera present, normal salinity, perhaps nearby brackish source. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,ichnofossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,PRI,USNM |
Collection method comments: All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Balanus, corals, numerous otoliths, and Calianassa fragments are commonly found, though not listed. |
Metadata
Database number: | 60703 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy, B. Allen | Enterer: | A. Hendy, B. Allen |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-20 23:40:49 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 23:40:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17318. | P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
19909 | A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/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] |