Where: Venezuela (11.5° N, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 67.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Mataruca Member of 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: From unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hodson, F.; reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Hodson, F. REPOSITORY: Paleontological Research Institution (PRI).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131304: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.07.2012

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