NMB Loc. 17520 - Casa Cantaure [Cantaure Fm] (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as GS-6-PGNA

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)

• AGE: Lower Miocene. LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Cantaure Formation. From upper shell bed.

• 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: P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132319: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.08.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause

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
 Cerithioidea - Litiopidae
Ipunina vladimiri1 Nielsen and Frassinetti 2008 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Sincola (Dorsina) pigea Olsson 1964 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Ameranna primitiva2 Landau and Vermeij 2012 true whelk
Engina cantaurana2 Landau and Vermeij 2012 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi1 Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Semicassis aldrichi1 Dall 1890 snail
Cypraecassis testiculus1 Linnaeus 1758 snail
Cypraecassis cantaurana1 Beu 2010 snail
Sconsia laevigata1 Guppy 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Monoplex cercadicus1 Maury 1917 triton shell
Monoplex jackwinorum1 Beu 2010 triton shell
Reticutriton sp.1 Habe 1966 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa1 Sowerby 1835 frog shell