UCVG 704 - Quebrada Mare Abajo [Mare Fm]: Late Pliocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Strombina (Lirastrombina) mareana
(Weisbord 1962)
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Venezuela |
Coordinates: | 10.6° North, 63.5° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 10.5° North, 63.0° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mare | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Mare Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: middle-late Pliocene; stated to be included in the Globorotalia tosaensis Zone (Rögl, pers. comm., 1986; Boli & Saunders, 1985). 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: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | NMB |
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB). | |
Taxonomic list comments:NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text. |
Metadata
Database number: | 131310 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2012-07-23 08:34:35 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-07-23 08:34:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |