Las Calderas Canyon [Tortuga Fm] (Holocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (10.8° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 63.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tortuga Formation, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tortuga Fm, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Holocene; justification not stated in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, presumed. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Landau

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY: B. Landau collection.

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136357: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Ranularia cynocephalum, Monoplex parthenopeus, Monoplex pilearis
Ranularia cynocephalum Lamarck 1816 triton shell
Monoplex parthenopeus von Salis Marschlins 1793 triton shell
Monoplex pilearis Linnaeus 1758 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa corrugata
Bursa corrugata Perry 1811 frog shell