Where: Venezuela (10.8° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globoratalia margaritae foram zone, Cerro Negro Member (Araya Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Ingram gives as Late Miocene, but only Cerro Negro member is present on island, and that is Pliocene. This would be the early Pliocene portion.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Landau in 2003-2007

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

• COLLECTOR: B. Landau and colleagues, over "last five years". REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Centro de Geologia da Universidad de Lisboa, Camp Grande, Portugal, NHM Vienna, and personal collection of B. Landau.

Primary reference: W. M. Ingram. 1947. New fossil Cypraeidae from Venezuela and Colombia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 31(121):127-136 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179643: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.06.2016

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