NMB Loc. 17527 - Paraguana [Buenevara Adentro beds] (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (12.0° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 67.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buenevara Adentro Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Buenevara Adentro beds", for which lithostratigraphic details are not provided. AGE: early Middle Miocene in text; justification not stated.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gibson-Smith & Gibson-Smith; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: J. & W. Gibson-Smith. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorische Museum Basel (NMB).

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 136469: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in publication. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Sconsia laevigata, Cassis sulcifera
Sconsia laevigata Guppy 1850 snail
Cassis sulcifera Sowerby 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa amphitrites
Bursa amphitrites Maury 1917 frog shell