Hodson Loc. 96: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella bifastigata
Nelson 1870
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recombined as Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata | ||||||||||
Subspecies: Turritella bifastigata democraciana | ||||||||||
Turritella berjadinensis
Hodson 1926
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Subspecies: Turritella berjadinensis warfieldi | ||||||||||
Turritella altilira
Conrad 1857
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recombined as Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira | ||||||||||
Subspecies: Turritella altilira urumacoensis | ||||||||||
Turritella plebeia
Say 1824
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recombined as Mariacolpus plebeia | ||||||||||
Subspecies: Turritella plebeia alowensi | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices subporcana
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula densata
Conrad 1843
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten circularis
Sowerby 1835
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Subspecies: Pecten circularis venezuelanus | ||||||||||
= Argopecten venezualanus
Hodson and Hodson 1927
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Woodring 1982 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia zuliana
Hodson 1929
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recombined as Cyclocardia zuliana | ||||||||||
Subspecies: Venericardia zuliana maracaibensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
Coordinates: | 10.8° North, 70.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 10.6° North, 68.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Miocene in original text; assigned to Late Miocene on the basis of general faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within sequence. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 61042 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Miller, A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-05-29 08:46:56 | Last modified: | 2012-11-28 15:26:21 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-29 08:46:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17421. | 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] |
Secondary references:
13359 | W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |