Also known as Locality D
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 62.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Abisinia Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• The Abisinia Formation consists of clays, silts, sands, and gravels which post-date the Mare Formation (late Pliocene) and pre-date recent sedimentation. The thickness of teh Abisinia Formation does not exceed 40 ft.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, micaceous, gray claystone and micaceous, gray siltstone
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 41556: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
| |
"Acmaea cf. pustulata" = Patelloida pustulata1
| |
| |
| |
| |
"Trivia pediculus" = Pusula pediculus1
| |
| |
"Persicula (? Rabicea) hodsoni" = Persicula interruptalineata1, "Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana" = Persicula venezuelana1, "Persicula (Rabicea) interuptelinata" = Persicula1
| |
"Cantharus (Pollia) tinctus" = Gemophos tinctus1
| |
| |
Anachis (Lioterma) exuta1, Anachis (Costoanachis) ? plicatulum1, "Mazatlania aciculata" = Mazatlania cosentini1, Nitidella laevigata1, Columbella mercatoria1, "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa1
| |
Olivella (Olivella) spissiliabiata1, Olivella (Niteoliva) verreauxii1, "Oliva (Ispidula) schepmani" = Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona1
| |
"Mangelia (Agathotoma) cf. fusca" = Agathotoma1
| |
"Terebra (Hastula) cinera" = Hastula1
| |
"Conus (Lithoconus) cf. daucus" = Conus daucus1, Conus (Conus) regius1, Conus (Leptoconus) jaspideus1
| |
| |
"Astraea (Lithopoma) tuber" = Lithopoma tuber1
| |
"Tegula (Agathistoma) viridula" = Agathistoma viridula1
| |
"Tricolia tessellata" = Eulithidium tessellata1
| |
| |
| |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita (Carditamera) gracilis" = Carditamera2
| |
"Codakia (Lentillaria) orbicularis" = Codakia (Codakia) orbicularis2
| |
? Pseudochama sp.2, "Pseudochama radians" = Chama radians2, Chama sinuosa2, Chama macerophylla2, Chama congregata2
| |
Tivela (Tivela) mactroides2, "Petricola (Rupellaria) typica" = Choristodon robustus2, "Pitar (Hysteroconcha) dione" = Hysteroconcha dione2
| |
| |
| |
Barbatia (Barbatia) candida, "Arca (Arca) zebra" = Byssoarca zebra, "Arca (Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata, "Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis
Barbatia (Barbatia) candida Helbling 1779 clam
"Arca (Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam
"Barbatia (Acar) domingensis" = Acar domingensis Lamarck 1819 miniature ark | |
Polychaeta | |
Strigilla carnaria | |
Strigilla carnaria2 Linnaeus 1758 |