Cerro Barrigon, Araya Peninsula [Araya Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, Venezuela
collected by Landau 2003-2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Vokesmurex messorius
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) subsutum (Guppy 1867)
original and current combination Crucibulum subsutum
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis papulosus (Guppy 1866)
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
SUBSPECIES: Petaloconchus sculpturatus alcimus
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Pseudozonaria fehsei Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Pediculariidae
Jenneria loxahatcheensis (Smith 1936)
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus arayensis
Persististrombus granulatus (Swainson 1822)
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa (Sowerby 1835)
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea beaui
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Bivetopsia pachia (Smith 1940)
Massyla cubaguaensis (Landau et al. 2007)
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) sp. Lamarck 1799
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) capeloi Landau et al. 2007
Pyruclia scheibei (Anderson 1929)
Euclia montserratensis (Maury 1925)
Euclia leuzingeri (Rutsch 1934)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Fusiturricula springvaleensis (Mansfield 1925)
Conomitra caribbeana Weisbord 1929
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva couvana Maury 1925
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Eburna caroniana (Maury 1925)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Bellaspira niaddrina (Mansfield 1925)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus cf. oniscus (Woodring 1928)
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava caroniana (Maury 1925)
Clathrodrillia gatunensis (Toula 1909)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra aclinica (Olsson 1967)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Calophos plicatilis (Bose 1906)
Gordanops baranoanus (Anderson 1929)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Solenosteira (Solenosteira) magdalenensis (Weisbord 1929)
Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) falconensis (Weisbord 1929)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Fusimitra sanctifrancisci (Maury 1925)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Haustellum mimiwilsoni Vokes 1990
Eupleura muriciformis (Broderip 1833)
Typhina expansa (Sowerby 1874)
Stramonita biserialis (de Blainville 1832)
recombined as Thais biserialis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Persicula lavelana (Hodson 1927)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Harpa crenata Swainson 1822
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Sinum gabbi (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Bactrospira) planigyrata (Guppy 1867)
Turritella (Bactrospira) guppyi (Cossmann 1909)
original and current combination Turritella guppyi
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma (Calliostoma) calderense Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Senectus) castanea (Gmelin 1791)
Lithopoma brevispinum (Lamarck 1822)
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 10.6° North, 64.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° North, 63.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cubagua Formation:Araya
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Araya Fm of the Cubagua Gp (Late Miocene-Pliocene), which overlies the La Güica Fm. THICKNESS: From a formation that has a maximum thickness of 164 m at its type section. AGE: Late Pliocene on the basis of planktonic foraminifera. Belongs to the Globoratalia miocenica zone(3.2-2.4 Ma) according to Castro and Mederos, 1997. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list for the formation at this section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Poorly consolidated fossiliferous fine sand. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified (or unlithified) on the basis of facies description.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Tropical shallow-marine environment of normal salinity and with a sandy substrate.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Landau Collection dates:2003-2007
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: B. Landau and colleagues, over "last five years". REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Centro de Geologia da Universidad de Lisboa, Camp Grande, Portugal, NHM Vienna, and personal collection of B. Landau.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda. Does not include other mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and including systematic revision of other neighboring Caribbean assemblages.
Metadata
Database number:111011
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-18 10:46:34 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-06-18 10:46:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36423. B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]