NMB Loc. 17516 - Casa Cantaure [Cantaure Fm] (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.9° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 66.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cantaure Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Lower Miocene. Cantaure Formation. No further stratigraphic data

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• No lithologic data provided.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Reposited in Naturhistorische Museum Basel.

Primary reference: J. Gibson-Smith and W. Gibson-Smith. 1988. Further notes on Eudolium (Galeodolium) subfasciatum. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 21:119 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41832: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list based on single taxa described in paper. Further species to be added from Jung (1965)
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum (Oniscidia) jungi3 Landau 1996 snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) hodsonae4, Narona barystoma4, "Cancellaria (Charcolleria) emilyvokesae" = Massyla emilyvokesae4, "Cancellaria (Massyla) cantaurana" = Massyla cantaurana4, Axelella yara4, "Cancellaria (Bivetiella) jungi" = Bivetiella4
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) hodsonae4 Landau and Petit 1997 snail
Narona barystoma4 Woodring 1970 snail
"Cancellaria (Charcolleria) emilyvokesae" = Massyla emilyvokesae4 Landau and Petit 1996 snail
"Cancellaria (Massyla) cantaurana" = Massyla cantaurana4 Landau and Petit 1996 snail
Axelella yara4 Landau and Petit 2007 snail
"Cancellaria (Bivetiella) jungi" = Bivetiella4 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Sincola (Dorsina) pigea2 Olsson 1964 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa rhodostoma1 Sowerby 1835 frog shell
Bursa rugosa1 Sowerby 1835 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Semicassis aldrichi1 Dall 1890 snail
Cypraecassis testiculus1 Linnaeus 1758 snail
B. Landau collection
Sconsia laevigata1 Guppy 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Eudolium subfasciatum1 Sacco 1890 tun shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Monoplex cercadicus1 Maury 1917 triton shell
Monoplex ritteri1 Schmelz 1989 triton shell
Monoplex jackwinorum1 Beu 2010 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio jungi n. sp.1 snail
Distorsio mcgintyi1 Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
 Cerithioidea - Litiopidae
Ipunina vladimiri1 Nielsen and Frassinetti 2008 snail