Also known as Locality J
Where: Sucre, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 63.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Mare Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• From lower Mare Formation. The lower 10-15 ft are made up of incoherent grits and sands containing many well-preserved fossils. The lower member starts as a pebble to granule gravel or "grit". The Playa Grande and Mare formations of the Cabo Blanco Group are believed to be early Pliocene in age, and the Guaiguaza clay late Pliocene
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, pebbly conglomerate and sandstone
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 41545: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Gastropoda | |
"Odostomia (Evalea) antilleana" = Evalea1
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"Tegula (Agathistoma) viridula" = Agathistoma viridula1
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Crepidula phalaena1, Crepidula avirostra1, Crepidula plana1, "Crepidula (Bostrycapulus) aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus1, Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula1, Crucibulum (Dispotaea) venezuelanum1
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"Strombina caboblanquensis" = Strombina (Strombina) pumilio1, "Columbella williamgabbi" = Columbella mercatoria1, "Pyrene (? Eurypyrene) occidentalis" = Eurypyrene1, "Anachis (Costoanachis) obesa" = Parvanachis obesa1, "Mazatlania aciculata" = Mazatlania cosentini1
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Fusinus closer1, "Fusinus marensis" = Fusinus dilectus1, Fasciolaria hollisteri1, Fasciolaria semistriata1
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"Terebra (Strioterebrum) gatunensis" = Strioterebrum spiriferum1, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) trispiralis" = Strioterebrum trispiralis1, "Terebra (Hastula) hastata" = Hastula hastata1
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Olivella (Niteoliva) minuta1, Olivella (Olivella) spissilabiata1, Olivella (Olivella) venezuelensis1, Olivella (Olivella) gracilis1, "Oliva (Ispidula) schepmani" = Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona1, Jaspidella caribbeana1
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"Drupa (Morula) gilbertharrisi" = Morula1, "Murex (Murex) chrysostomus" = Vokesimurex chrysostoma1, "Murex (Phyllonotus) pomum" = Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1
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"Persicula (? Rabicea) hodsoni" = Persicula interruptalineata1, "Persicula (Rabicea) venezuelana" = Persicula venezuelana1, "Persicula (Rabicea) interruptelinata" = Persicula1
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"Semicassis (Tylocassis) granulata" = Semicassis granulata1
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Bivalvia | |
"Crenella divaricata" = Crenella decussata2
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"Lyropecten (Nodipecten) "sp. A"" = Nodipecten2, Pecten (Pecten) caribeus2, Pecten (Pecten) maiquetiensis2, "Pecten (Amusium) marensis" = Amusium2, "Chlamys (Leptopecten) desultoria" = Leptopecten2, "Chlamys (Argopecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus2
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Anadara (? Lunarca) mareana, "Anadara (Lunarca) ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis2, Anadara (Cunearca) cumanensis2
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"Diplodonta (Diplodonta) mareana" = Diplodonta soror2
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Periglypta aff. listeri2, "Chione (Lirophora) riomaturensis" = Lirophora (Lirophora) riomaturensis2, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata2, "Pitar (Hysteroconcha) dione" = Hysteroconcha dione2, Tivela (Planitivela) venezuelana2, Pleiorytis venezuelensis2, Macrocallista maculata2, "Transenella caboblanquensis" = Transennella2
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"Lucina (Cavulinga) trisulcata" = Cavilinga trisulcata2
"Lucina (Cavulinga) trisulcata" = Cavilinga trisulcata2 Conrad 1841 clam Subspecies: Lucina (Cavulinga trisulcata blandis
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"Cardita (Carditamera) gracilis" = Carditamera2, "Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2
"Venericardia (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi" = Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) wendellwoodringi2 Weisbord 1964 clam | |
Strigilla carnaria | |
Strigilla carnaria2 Linnaeus 1758 |