Re #1199 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis Hodson 1927
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis (Röding 1798)
Subspecies: A. (A.) nobilis karsteni and nobilis nobilis
    = Architectonica kartseni
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) venada
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cf. venezuelana Hodson 1926
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926
Turritella cocoditana (Hodson 1926)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Neverita paraguanensis (Hodson 1927)
Polinices nelsoni
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus cf. tumbeziensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cymatophos cocoditoensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena melongena (Linnaeus 1758)
Subspecies: M. melongena consors
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Charcolleria) terryi Olsson 1942
recombined as Massyla terryi
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana (Weisbord 1929)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Strioterebrum) informal sp C.
original and current combination Strioterebrum
Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa Olsson 1932
recombined as Strioterebrum ulloa
Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera (Sowerby 1849)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus talis Jung 1965
Conus aff. molis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira barretti (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Borsonia (Paraborsonia) cantaurana
original and current combination Paraborsonia
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia testacea (Lamarck 1811)
Subspecies: A. testacea costaricensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva (Oliva) cf. cylindrica (Sowerby 1850)
original and current combination Oliva cylindrica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Knefastia kugleri
Knefastia aff. lavinoides (Olsson 1922)
synonym of Knefastia limonensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Turbinella falconensis (Hodson 1931)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum (Prunum) quirosense (Hodson 1927)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Voluta vautrini Jung 1965
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
Marginocypraea wegeneri (Schilder 1939)
original and current combination Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa (Colubrellina) caelata (Broderip 1833)
Subspecies: B. (C.) caelata amphitrites
    = Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Subspecies: F. carbasea carbasea
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Eurytellina) paraguanensis (Hodson 1931)
Psammacoma cf. falconensis (Hodson and Hodson 1931)
synonym of Psammacoma gatunensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione (Chionopsis) paraguanensis (Hodson 1927)
synonym of Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum
Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis (Hodson 1927)
Clementia (Clementia) dariena (Conrad 1855)
Cyclinella venezuelana Hodson 1927
synonym of Cyclinella cyclica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra (Micromactra) maracaibensis
synonym of Mactrotoma
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Caryocorbula) fortis Jung 1965
recombined as Caryocorbula fortis
see common names

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:20.44000 - 15.98000 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:60710
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-20 23:43:02 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-20 23:43:01
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]

Secondary references:

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]