Where: Falcon, Venezuela (10.8° N, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 67.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Socorro Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• AGE: Miocene in original text; Middle Miocene, based on the presence of Leptopecten gilbertharrisi; following Waller (2011).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson, and G. D. Harris. 1927. Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks. Bulletins of America Paleontology 13(49):1-160 [A. Miller/A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61041: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 29.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Argopecten venezualanus, "Pecten (Plagioctenium) gilbertharrisi" = Argopecten gilbertharrisi, Argopecten levicostatus
Argopecten venezualanus Hodson and Hodson 1927 calico scallop Two Subspecies: Pecten circularis cornellanus, Pecten circularis venezuelanus
"Pecten (Plagioctenium) gilbertharrisi" = Argopecten gilbertharrisi Hodson and Hodson 1927 calico scallop Subspecies: Pecten (Plagioctenium) gilbertharrisi democracianus
Argopecten levicostatus Toula 1909 calico scallop | |
Plicatula densata Conrad 1843 scallop | |
Chama berjadinensis Hodson 1927 jewel box |