Where: Venezuela (11.5° N, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 68.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Punta Gavilan Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit; possibly the Usiacurí Fm (enterer's guess). AGE: Early Pliocene; justification not stated in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with silica

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected reposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB).

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1996. A new species of Poirieria (Paziella) (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Punta Gavilian Formation, Northern Venezuela. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:67-68 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41831: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)