Re #1154 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis
Hodson 1927
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Scapharca) tirantensis
(Hodson et al. 1927)
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Anadara (Scapharca) aff. cornellana
(Hodson et al. 1927)
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Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis
Jung 1965
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Cyclinella venezuelana
Hodson 1927
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Clementia (Clementia) dariena
(Conrad 1855)
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Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Psammacoma falconensis
(Hodson and Hodson 1931)
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella machapoorensis
Maury 1925
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| Subspecies: T. machapoorensis paraguanensis | ||||||||||
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Turritella cocoditana
(Hodson 1926)
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Gastropoda
- Eocypraeidae
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Marginocypraea wegeneri
(Schilder 1939)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena melongena
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| Subspecies: M. melongena consors | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cymatophos cocoditoensis
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Cymatophos paraguanensis
(Hodson and Hodson 1931)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Latirus cf. tumbeziensis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis
(Sowerby 1849)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus aff. molis
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana
(Weisbord 1929)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Polystira barretti
(Guppy 1866)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva (Oliva) cylindrica
(Sowerby 1850)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum (Prunum) quirosense
(Hodson 1927)
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Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Malea cf. camura
Guppy 1866
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Neverita paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis
(Röding 1798)
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| Subspecies: A. (A.) nobilis nobilis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Turbonilla falconensis
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Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.9° North, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.2° North, 66.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cantaure | ||||
| Regional section: | Paraguana | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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". | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | micaceous,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Clay, massive, micaceous, slightly silty, and locally containing abundant fossils. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: Tropical shallow-water assemblage, neritic, no deep-water genera present, normal salinity, perhaps nearby brackish source. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,ichnofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,PRI,USNM |
| Collection method comments: All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Balanus, corals, numerous otoliths, and Calianassa fragments are commonly found, though not listed. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60707 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-20 23:42:18 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 23:42:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17318. | P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |