Re #1152 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Turbonilla falconensis
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis
(Röding 1798)
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| original and current combination Architectonica nobilis | ||||||||||
| Subspecies: A. (A.) nobilis nobilis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella cocoditana
(Hodson 1926)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Melongena melongena
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| Subspecies: M. melongena consors | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa
Olsson 1932
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| recombined as Strioterebrum ulloa | ||||||||||
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Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis
(Sowerby 1849)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus aristos
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Conus talis
Jung 1965
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Conus aff. imitator
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Conus aff. molis
Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Costellariidae
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Knefastia kugleri
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Gastropoda
- Eocypraeidae
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Marginocypraea wegeneri
(Schilder 1939)
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| original and current combination Sphaerocypraea wegeneri | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Bursa (Colubrellina) caelata
(Broderip 1833)
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| Subspecies: B. (C.) caelata amphitrites | ||||||||||
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= Bursa rugosa
Sowerby 1835
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Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Noetia dauleana
Marks 1951
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| Subspecies: N. dauleana paraguenensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Scapharca) tirantensis
(Hodson et al. 1927)
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| recombined as Anadara (Rasia) tirantensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis
(Hodson 1927)
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Clementia (Clementia) dariena
(Conrad 1855)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.9° North, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.2° North, 66.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cantaure | ||||
| Regional section: | Paraguana | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Clays, sandstone, and limestones of up to 75, thick, although no single section is completely exposed. Collection apparently derived from near middle part of that thickness. Overlies unconformably Cretaceous rocks and is conformably overlain by limestones on middle to upper Miocene. Jung (1965) regarded the collection as early Middle Miocene, though more recent authors, including Vermeij (2001) indicate an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. Formation formerly referred to as "Cerro Pelado". | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | micaceous,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Clay, massive, micaceous, slightly silty, and locally containing abundant fossils. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: Tropical shallow-water assemblage, neritic, no deep-water genera present, normal salinity, perhaps nearby brackish source. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,ichnofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH,NMB,PRI,USNM |
| Collection method comments: All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Balanus, corals, numerous otoliths, and Calianassa fragments are commonly found, though not listed. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60705 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-20 23:41:37 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-20 23:41:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17318. | P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |