Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 64.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cumana Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cumana Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Pleistocene; stated to be included in the Globorotalia truncatulinoides Zone (Bermudez & boil, 1969; Boli, 1970; Boli, 1972). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is representative of formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Multiple repositories. REPOSITORY: Multiple repositories.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131918: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Murex (Haustellum) messorius" = Vokesimurex messorius
"Murex (Haustellum) messorius" = Vokesimurex messorius Sowerby 1841 murex snail |