Locality F, Venezuela - Weisbord (1964): Early Pliocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
    = Haustellum messorium Sowerby 1841
Hendy et al. 2008
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Weisbord 1964 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Weisbord 1964 26 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Weisbord 1964 26 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Weisbord 1964 362 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 9 specimens
Weisbord 1964 6 specimens
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Weisbord 1964 9 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 47 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Weisbord 1964 24 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Weisbord 1964 8 specimens
Ervilia nitens (Montagu 1808)
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna aff. carnea Gmelin 1791
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Weisbord 1964 6 specimens
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Pododesmus rudis (Broderip 1834)
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 6 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Weisbord 1964 8 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis (Bruguiere 1789)
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Weisbord 1964 6 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Weisbord 1964 9 specimens
Weisbord 1964 5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 3 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 7 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Fustiariidae
Gastropoda - Phasianellidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Weisbord 1962 28 specimens
Gastropoda - Litiopidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
[entered as Crepidula phalaeana]
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus pugilis Linnaeus 1758
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Subspecies: Strombus pugilis pugilus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 26 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana (Hodson et al. 1927)
Weisbord 1962 5 specimens
Subspecies: Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana lavelana
    = Persicula lavelana Hodson 1927
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 11 specimens
Weisbord 1962 22 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Weisbord 1962 24 specimens
Subspecies: Conus (Leptoconus) jaspideus caboblanquensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Columbella mareana Weisbord 1962
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus closter (Philippi 1850)
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Subspecies: Fusinus closter caboblanquensis
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Charonia sp. Gistel 1848
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
? Acteon sp. Montfort 1810
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798
Weisbord 1962 9 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Sucre
Coordinates: 10.0° North, 64.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 62.8° 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: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cabo Blanco Formation:Mare Member:Upper
Local section:Locality F
Regional section:Quebrada Mare Abajo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: From upper Mare Formation. These silts overlie the coarser sediments at the base of the Mare Formation. The Playa Grande and Mare formations of the Cabo Blanco Group are believed to be early Pliocene in age, and the Guaiguaza clay late Pliocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,brown poorly lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The upper Mare Formation consist of tan, homogeneous, and slightly compacted silts of a fine and even texture.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: Shallow-marine deposit.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collection method comments: Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State University
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca, and serpulids
Metadata
Also known as:Locality F
Database number:41541
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-16 11:05:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-16 11:05:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11132. N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(214):111-199 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]

Secondary references:

19909 A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/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]
13987 N. E. Weisbord. 1962. Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 42(193) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]
11137 N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 45(204):1-564 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]