Punta Gavilán Formation (unspecified localities): Early/Lower Pliocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Senectus) castanea (Gmelin 1791)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) subsutum (Guppy 1867)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
original and current combination Crucibulum subsutum
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella abrupta (Spieker 1922)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Turritella (Bactrospira) guppyi (Cossmann 1909)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
original and current combination Turritella guppyi
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Fusimitra sanctifrancisci (Maury 1925)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva reticularis Lamarck 1811
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Eburna speciosa (Rutsch 1934)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Calophos plicatilis (Bose 1906)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus vonderschmidti (Rutsch 1934)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Pleuroploca gorgasiana (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina informal sp. B Mörch 1852
Jung 1989
Strombina (Arayina) humboldti (Rutsch 1934)
Jung 1989
Strombina (Strombina) colinensis (Hodson 1931)
Jung 1989
Strombina (Lirastrombina) rutschi (Gibson-Smith 1974)
Jung 1989
Sincola (Dorsina) pigea (Olsson 1964)
Jung 1989
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) cedonulli (Reeve 1843)
Woodring 1970
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus burckhardti Bose 1906
Woodring 1970
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Crassispira (Hindsiclava) consors (Sowerby 1850)
Woodring 1970
recombined as Hindsiclava consors
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra lehneri Rutsch 1934
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Strioterebrum spiriferum (Dall 1895)
Woodring 1970
Strioterebrum meesmanni (Rutsch 1934)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Fusiturricula springvaleensis (Mansfield 1925)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Conomitra caribbeana Weisbord 1929
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Persicula lavelana (Hodson 1927)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhina expansa (Sowerby 1874)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Eupleura muriciformis (Broderip 1833)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum (Gmelin 1791)
Vokes 1998
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons (Lamarck 1822)
Vokes 1990
Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis (Sowerby 1850)
Vokes 1990
Haustellum donmoorei Bullis 1964
Vokes 1990
Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Euclia leuzingeri (Rutsch 1934)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Cancellaria (Charcolleria) terryi Olsson 1942
Woodring 1970
recombined as Massyla terryi
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Woodring 1959
SUBSPECIES: Ficus carbasea carbasea
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
Beu 2010
Distorsio clathrata (Lamarck 1816)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Malea densecostata (Rustch 1934)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Sconsia laevigata (Guppy 1850)
Beu 2010
Semicassis senna
Beu 2010
Echinophoria hadra (Woodring and Olsson 1957)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis Marschlins 1793)
Beu 2010
Monoplex krebsii (Mörch 1877)
Beu 2010
Linatella caudata (Gmelin 1791)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa (Colubrellina) caelata (Broderip 1833)
Woodring 1959
SUBSPECIES: Bursa (Colubrellina) caelata amphritites
    = Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora delecta (Guppy 1876)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices stanislasmeunieri Maury 1917
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Sinum gabbi (Brown and Pilsbry 1913)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Stigmaulax beaumonti (Rutsch 1934)
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis papulosus (Guppy 1866)
Woodring 1959
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
SUBSPECIES: Petaloconchus sculpturatus alcimus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis (Röding 1798)
Woodring 1959
original and current combination Architectonica nobilis
SUBSPECIES: Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 11.0° North, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.9° North, 69.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Punta Gavilán
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Punta Gavilán Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early Pliocene; this has been correlated with the Globorotalia margarita Zone by Diaz de Gamero (1970), which is early Pliocene in age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96486
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-06-09 09:32:30 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-06-09 09:32:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11306. W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26828 P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
19070 P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
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]
36459 E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
18707 E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
11372 W. P. Woodring. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
13236 W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]