Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 69.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: La Vela Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the La Vela Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(A) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96485: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis2
"Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis" = Larkinia grandis2 Broderip and Sowerby 1829 ark SUBSPECIES: Anadara (Grandiarca) grandis colombiensis
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