Punta Colorada, Cubagua Island: Late Pliocene, Venezuela
collected by Landau 2003-2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846
Calyptraea centralis (Conrad 1841)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Stigmaulax beaumonti (Rutsch 1934)
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Gastropoda - Pediculariidae
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum calypsonis (Maury 1925)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Persicula lavelana (Hodson 1927)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva reticularis Lamarck 1811
Oliva immortua (Pilsbry and Brown 1917)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Eburna caroniana (Maury 1925)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791
Conus imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa (Sowerby 1835)
Gastropoda - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953
MISSPELT AS: Distorsio macgintyi
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 10.8° North, 64.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.0° North, 63.5° West (Wright 2013)
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 Pliocene Foram zone:  Globoratalia miocenica
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cubagua Formation:Araya Member:Cerro Negro
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:111010
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-18 10:43:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-06-18 10:43:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]