Also known as Locality D

Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 63.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 10.1° N, 62.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abisinia Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• The Abisinia Formation consists of clays, silts, sands, and gravels which post-date the Mare Formation (late Pliocene) and pre-date recent sedimentation. The thickness of teh Abisinia Formation does not exceed 40 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, micaceous, gray claystone and micaceous, gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Weisbord in 1955 and 1956. Collections also held at Flordia State University

Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1964. Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(214):111-199 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41556: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004

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