Hodson Loc. 73: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula densata Conrad 1843
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten circularis Sowerby 1835
Subspecies: Pecten circularis venezuelanus
    = Argopecten venezuelanus
Woodring 1982
Pecten soror (Gabb 1873)
Subspecies: Pecten soror urumaconis
    = Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) urumaconis Hodson et al. 1927
Woodring 1982
recombined as Euvola urumaconis
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela State/province:Falcon
Coordinates: 10.8° North, 70.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° North, 68.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Miocene in original text; Late Miocene, based on the presence of Euvola urumaconis; following Waller (2011).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61017
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:A. Miller, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-29 06:34:29 Last modified:2012-11-28 13:48:27
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-29 06:34:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17421. F. Hodson, H. K. Hodson, and G. D. Harris. 1927. Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks. Bulletins of America Paleontology 13(49):1-160 [A. Miller/A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

13359 W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]