Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.3° N, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 67.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)
• AGE: Miocene in original text; Langhian-Tortonian, based on the presence of Lindapecten buchivacoanus; following Waller (2011).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the PRI
• COLLECTOR: Hodson, F. and others, Standard Oil Company of Venezuela. REPOSITORY: PRI (Ithaca, NY).
Primary reference: F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson, and G. D. Harris. 1927. Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks. Bulletins of America Paleontology 13(49):1-160 [A. Miller/A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135502: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
Petaloconchus sculpturatus domingensis worm shell | |
Polinices subclausa lavelana moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis
"Glycymeris canalis" = Tucetona pectinata canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 clam | |
Ostrea democraciana cujiensis Hodson et al. 1927 oyster | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) buchivacoanus maracaibensis" = Lindapecten plurinominis, Pecten circularis venezuelanus
"Pecten (Chlamys) buchivacoanus maracaibensis" = Lindapecten plurinominis Pilsbry and Johnson 1917 scallop
Pecten circularis venezuelanus Hodson et al. 1927 calico scallop | |
Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, "Chione (Lirophora) buenavistana" = Lirophora (Panchione) buenavistana, Macrocallista maculata
Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans Conrad 1838 venus clam
"Chione (Lirophora) buenavistana" = Lirophora (Panchione) buenavistana Hodson 1927 venus clam
Macrocallista maculata Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica granulata" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial |