NMB Loc. 17527 - Paraguana [Buenevara Adentro beds]: Langhian, Venezuela
collected by Gibson-Smith & Gibson-Smith
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Cassis sulcifera
Sowerby 1850
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Sconsia laevigata
(Guppy 1850)
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Personidae
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Distorsio mcgintyi
Emerson and Puffer 1953
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Bursa amphitrites
Maury 1917
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 12.0° North, 70.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.6° North, 65.4° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Buenevara Adentro | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Buenevara Adentro beds", for which lithostratigraphic details are not provided. AGE: early Middle Miocene in text; justification not stated. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided. LITHIFICATION: Unknown. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMB |
| Collectors: | Gibson-Smith & Gibson-Smith |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: J. & W. Gibson-Smith. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorische Museum Basel (NMB). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in publication. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 136469 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-11-28 16:14:15 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-11-28 16:14:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30037. | A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |