UC Loc. S-122. Apx. 400 meters south of 15 degrees west of house at Las Calderas: Zanclean, Venezuela
collected by Landau 2003-2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea rugosa n. sp.
Ingram 1947
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Geography
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Coordinates: | 10.8° North, 64.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.1° North, 63.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | Foram zone: | Globoratalia margaritae |
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Cubagua | Formation: | Araya | Member: | Cerro Negro |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ingram gives as Late Miocene, but only Cerro Negro member is present on island, and that is Pliocene. This would be the early Pliocene portion. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine poorly lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: nerithic depth | |
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: | 179643 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-06-23 05:34:03 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-06-23 05:34:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59297. | W. M. Ingram. 1947. New fossil Cypraeidae from Venezuela and Colombia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 31(121):127-136 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 59509 | V. Padron, J. Martinell, and R. Domenech. 1993. The marine Neogene of Eastern Venezuela: A preliminary report. Ciencias da Terra (UNL) 12:151-159 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |