Falcón [El Veral Fm] (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: El Veral Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the El Veral Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96483: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Rasia) dariensis
Anadara (Rasia) dariensis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 ark
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyclinella cyclica
Cyclinella cyclica Guppy 1866 venus clam
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Raeta undulata
Raeta undulata Gould 1851 clam