Also known as Locality T
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 63.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mare Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• From upper Mare Formation. These silts overlie the coarser sediments at the base of the Mare Formation. The Playa Grande and Mare formations of the Cabo Blanco Group are believed to be early Pliocene in age, and the Guaiguaza clay late Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State University
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(214):111-199 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41554: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
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Olivella (Minioliva) fundarugata1, Olivella (Olivella) venezuelensis1, "Oliva (Ispidula) schepmani" = Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona1
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"Strombina caboblanquensis" = Strombina (Strombina) pumilio1, "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa1, "? Strombina galba" = Mazatlania cosentini1
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"Terebra (Hastula) hastata" = Hastula hastata1, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) gatunensis" = Strioterebrum spiriferum1
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"Persicula (Rabicea) interruptelinata" = Persicula1, "Persicula (? Rabicea) hodsoni" = Persicula interruptalineata1
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"Caecum (Fartulum) venezuelanum" = Fartulum1
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Anadara (Cunearca) cumanensis2, Anadara (? Lunarca) caboblanquensis, "Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
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"Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus2 Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop Subspecies: Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus antecessor
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"Crenella divaricata" = Crenella decussata2
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Transennella caboblanquensis2, Pitar (Pitar) maiquetiensis2, Pitar (Pitar) antillensis2, Pleiorytis venezuelensis2, Tivela (Planitivela) venezuelana2, Macrocallista maculata2, "Dosinia (Dosinidia) concentrica" = Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica2, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata2
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) concentrica" = Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica2 Born 1778 venus clam Subspecies: Dosinia (Dosinidia) concentrica prosapia
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"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2
"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2 Weisbord 1964 clam | |
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Adrana cf. tellinoides pointed nut clam |