Where: Falcón, Venezuela (11.9° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cantaure Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Lower Miocene. Díaz de Gamero (1974), based on planktic forams, assigned a Lower Miocene age to the Cantaure Formation, placing it in the Globigerinatella insueta and Praeorbulina glomerosa Zones of Bolli (1966) and Zones N7-N8 of Blow (1969). Rey (1996) confirmed this age based on the nannofossil assemblage, and placing it in the Helicosphaera ampliaperta and Sphenolithus heteromorphus Zones, NN4-NN5. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: B. Landau and R. Petit. REPOSITORY: Bernard Landau collection, Portugal (BL coll.).; FLMNH; EDIMAR (Museo de la Estacio´n de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita)
Primary reference: B. Landau, R. Petit, and C. M. Silva. 2007. The Pliocene Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Cubagua Formation (Cerro Negro Member) from Cubagua Island, with a new species from the Miocene Cantaure Formation, Venezuela. The Veliger 49(1) [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96434: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
| |
"Arca imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata11
| |
"Noetia (Noetia) reversa" = Noetia reversa11
"Noetia (Noetia) reversa" = Noetia reversa11 Sowerby 1833 clam SUBSPECIES: Noetia (Noetia) reversa macdonaldi
| |
| |
| |
| |
Gastropoda | |
| |
| |
Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus5, Chicoreus (Siratus) denegatus8, Chicoreus (Siratus) quirosensis8, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) corrigendum8, Haustellum gilli8, Vokesimurex messorius5, Poirieria (Panamurex) eugeniae5, "Pterynotus (Subterynotus) textilis" = Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis10, "Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis" = Murexiella (Subpterynotus) textilis9
| |
"Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) sp." = Bivetopsia, Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) herberti n. sp., Cancellaria (Cancellaria) hodsonae, Narona barystoma6, Massyla terryi7, "Cancellaria (Massyla) cantaurana" = Massyla cantaurana, "Cancellaria (Euclia) werenfelsi" = Euclia werenfelsi, Cancellaria (Bivetiella) lugogonzalezorum n. sp.
"Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) sp." = Bivetopsia Jousseaume 1887 snail
Cancellaria (Bivetopsia) herberti n. sp. Landau et al. 2007 snail
Cancellaria (Cancellaria) hodsonae Landau and Petit 1997 snail
"Cancellaria (Massyla) cantaurana" = Massyla cantaurana Landau and Petit 1996 snail
"Cancellaria (Euclia) werenfelsi" = Euclia werenfelsi Jung 1965 snail
Cancellaria (Bivetiella) lugogonzalezorum n. sp. Landau et al. 2007 snail | |
| |
| |
Mitrella cantaurana2 Gibson-Smith 1974 snail Strombina (Strombina) cantaurana in Gibson-Smith (1974)
| |
| |
Semicassis aldrichi1, Echinophoria hadra1, Cypraecassis testiculus1, Cypraecassis cantaurana1, Sconsia laevigata1
| |
| |
Monoplex krebsii1, Monoplex cercadicus1, Monoplex ritteri1, Monoplex jackwinorum1, Turritriton domingensis1, Reticutriton sp.1
| |
| |
Pseudozonaria primarobertsi n. sp.4, Pseudozonaria falconensis n. sp.4, Pseudozonaria praeaequinoctialis n. sp.4, Zonaria pseudotumulus n. sp.4, Zonaria pingata n. sp.4, Trona trinitatensis4, Trona ingrami n. sp.4, Luria cantaurana n. sp.4, Luria isabellaprimitiva n. sp.4, Muracypraea hyaena4, Propustularia paraguanensis n. sp.4, Propustularia longidentata n. sp.4
| |
Cephalopoda | |
"Aturia curvilineata" = Aturia cubaensis12
|