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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 23 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
2 specimens
Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis (Bruguiere 1789)
Weisbord 1964 25 specimens
Weisbord 1964 8 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Weisbord 1964 8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 3 specimens
Weisbord 1964 7 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella divaricata (d'Orbigny 1853)
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Ervilia nitens (Montagu 1808)
Weisbord 1964 15 specimens
Subspecies: Ervilia nitens venezuelana
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama congregata Conrad 1833
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 12 specimens
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 10 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Subspecies: Lucina (Cavulinga trisulcata blandis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Personidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 33 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Olivella (Olivella) gracilis (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 19 specimens
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Mazatlania aciculata (Lamarck 1822)
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 30 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Weisbord 1962 11 specimens
Fusinus marensis Weisbord 1962
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Weisbord 1962 12 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Weisbord 1962 69 specimens
Weisbord 1962 7 specimens
Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana (Hodson et al. 1927)
Weisbord 1962 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Weisbord 1962 4 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 25 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Weisbord 1962 59 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Weisbord 1962 14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 5 specimens
[entered as Crepidula phalaeana]
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798
Weisbord 1962 13 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 12 specimens
Gastropoda - Phasianellidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Tegulidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
unclassified
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
    = Haustellum messorium Sowerby 1841
Hendy et al. 2008
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
unclassified
Strigilla carnaria (Linnaeus 1758)
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
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:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: From lower Mare Formation. The lower 10-15 ft are made up of incoherent grits and sands containing many well-preserved fossils. The lower member starts as a pebble to granule gravel or "grit". 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:pebbly unlithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology:very coarse sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Comprises incoherent grits and sands containing many well-preserved fossils. The lower member starts as a pebble to granule gravel or "grit".
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: Shallow-marine deposit.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
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 J
Database number:41545
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-16 11:36:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2005-07-16 11:36:19
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]
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]