Re #1153 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis
Hodson 1927
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Turbonilla falconensis
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Gastropoda
- Ficidae
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Ficus carbasea
(Guppy 1866)
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Subspecies: F. carbasea carbasea | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Cancellaria paraguanensis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena melongena
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Subspecies: M. melongena consors | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cymatophos cocoditoensis
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Gastropoda
- Eocypraeidae
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Marginocypraea wegeneri
(Schilder 1939)
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original and current combination Sphaerocypraea wegeneri | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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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: | 11.2° North, 66.6° West | ||
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: | 20.44000 - 15.97000 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: | 60706 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-20 23:42:06 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 23:42:05 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |