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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
    = Haustellum messorium Sowerby 1841
Hendy et al. 2008
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Weisbord 1964 88 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Weisbord 1964 3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Macrocallista maculata (Linnaeus 1758)
Weisbord 1964 21 specimens
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 11 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Subspecies: Dosinia (Dosinidia) concentrica prosapia
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Weisbord 1964 7 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Weisbord 1964 8 specimens
Ervilia nitens (Montagu 1808)
Weisbord 1964 18 specimens
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella divaricata (d'Orbigny 1853)
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Subspecies: Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus antecessor
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Weisbord 1964 3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Weisbord 1964 4 specimens
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
1 specimen
Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis (Bruguiere 1789)
25 specimens
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Weisbord 1964 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Weisbord 1964 2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 5 specimens
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora cayenensis (Lamarck 1822)
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Weisbord 1962 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Weisbord 1962 4 specimens
Weisbord 1962 27 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Weisbord 1962 8 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Weisbord 1962 8 specimens
Weisbord 1962 4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Weisbord 1962 26 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
? Strombina galba Weisbord 1962
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Weisbord 1962 6 specimens
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Personidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
Tonna ? galea (Linnaeus 1758)
Weisbord 1962 2 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
Weisbord 1962 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798
Weisbord 1962 6 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 T
Regional section:Quebrada Las Pailas
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 sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The upper Mare Formation consist of tan, homogeneous, and slightly compacted silts of a fine and even texture.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Beds were laid down in shallow marine waters
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
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 T
Database number:41554
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-16 11:51:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-16 11:51:16
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]