Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.9° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Clays, sandstone, and limestones of up to 75, thick, although no single section is completely exposed. Collection apparently derived from near middle part of that thickness. Overlies unconformably Cretaceous rocks and is conformably overlain by limestones on middle to upper Miocene. Jung (1965) regarded the collection as early Middle Miocene, though more recent authors, including Vermeij (2001) indicate an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. Formation formerly referred to as "Cerro Pelado".
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60709: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell | |
Mitra (Tiara) quirosana mitre shell | |
Cymatophos cocoditoensis true whelk
Cymatophos paraguanensis Hodson and Hodson 1931 true whelk | |
"Borsonia (Paraborsonia) cantaurana" = Paraborsonia
"Borsonia (Paraborsonia) cantaurana" = Paraborsonia snail | |
"Knefastia aff. lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis, Fusiturricula cf. jaquensis
"Knefastia aff. lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 ribbed mitre
Fusiturricula cf. jaquensis Sowerby 1850 ribbed mitre | |
Prunum (Prunum) quirosense Hodson 1927 margin shell | |
"Typhis (Laevityphis) sawkinsi" = Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) sawkinsi
"Typhis (Laevityphis) sawkinsi" = Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) sawkinsi Mansfield 1925 murex snail | |
Turbonilla falconensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea cf. portoricoensis Hubbard 1920 oyster |