Hodson Loc. 82: Late/Upper Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione (Chione) cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Chione cancellata
Chione (Lirophora) falconensis Hodson et al. 1927
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) falconensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycimeris canalis
With one subspecies: Glycimeris canalis democraciana
    = Glycymeris canalis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
Hendy et al. 2008
recombined as Tucetona pectinata canalis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten soror (Gabb 1873)
Subspecies: Pecten soror urumaconis
    = Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) urumaconis Hodson et al. 1927
Woodring 1982
recombined as Euvola urumaconis
Argopecten venezualanus (Hodson and Hodson 1927)
Woodring 1982
Two Subspecies: Pecten circularis cornellanus, Pecten circularis venezuelanus
Argopecten levicostatus (Toula 1909)
Woodring 1982
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula densata Conrad 1843
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella berjadinensis Hodson 1926
With one subspecies: Turritella berjadinensis colinensis
Turritella bifastigata Nelson 1870
recombined as Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata
Subspecies: Turritella bifastigata democraciana
Gastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Petaloconchus sculpturatus Lea 1846
Subspecies: Petaloconchus sculpturatus domingensis
Polinices subporcana
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
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Metadata
Database number:61027
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:A. Miller, A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-29 07:15:21 Last modified:2012-11-28 14:04:01
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-29 07:15:21
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:

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]
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]