Where: Falcón, Venezuela (12.0° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: N7-N8 foram zone, Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Díaz de Gamero (1974), based on planktic forams, assigned a Lower Miocene age to the Cantaure Formation, placing it in the Globigerinatella insueta and Praeorbulina glomerosa Zones of Bolli (1966) and Zones N7-N8 of Blow (1969). Rey (1996) confirmed this age based on the nannofossil assemblage, and placing it in the Helicosphaera ampliaperta and Sphenolithus heteromorphus Zones, NN4-NN5.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Primary reference: D. J. Thomas and W. D. MacDonald. 1970. The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula. Boletin Informativo de la Asociación Venezolana de Geología. Minería y Petróleo 13:177-179 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179723: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.06.2016

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