Re #1155 - Cantaure Formation: Burdigalian, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cocoditana (Hodson 1926)
Turritella gilbertharrisi Hodson 1926
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cymatophos cocoditoensis
Cymatophos paraguanensis (Hodson and Hodson 1931)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus cf. tumbeziensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus aristos
Conus talis Jung 1965
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis (Sowerby 1849)
Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa Olsson 1932
recombined as Strioterebrum ulloa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Knefastia kugleri
Knefastia aff. lavinoides (Olsson 1922)
synonym of Knefastia limonensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Prunum (Prunum) quirosense (Hodson 1927)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana (Hodson et al. 1927)
Subspecies: P. (R.) venezuelana lavelana
    = Persicula lavelana Hodson 1927
Landau and Marques da Silva 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) epistomifera (Guppy 1876)
    = Bivetiella dariena Toula 1908
Landau et al. 2012
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea (Guppy 1866)
Subspecies: F. carbasea carbasea
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
Marginocypraea wegeneri (Schilder 1939)
original and current combination Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica (Naticarius) canrena (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Naticarius canrena
Subspecies: N. (N.) canrena antinacca
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla falconensis
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis (Röding 1798)
original and current combination Architectonica nobilis
Subspecies: A. (A.) nobilis nobilis
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Nerita (Nerita) fulgurans Gmelin 1791
recombined as Nerita (Theliostyla) fulgurans
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Noetia dauleana Marks 1951
Subspecies: N. dauleana paraguenensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis (Hodson 1927)
Clementia (Clementia) dariena (Conrad 1855)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Psammacoma cf. falconensis (Hodson and Hodson 1931)
synonym of Psammacoma gatunensis
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 - 15.97000 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:60708
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-20 23:42:30 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-20 23:42:30
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]
43491 B. Landau, R. E. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2012. New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):907-930 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]