Also known as Locality C
Where: Carabobo, Venezuela (10.0° N, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 67.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guaiguaza Clay Formation (Cabo Blanco Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 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. Collected from Guaiguaza lay in draingae ditch about 1 m in depth.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
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 41540: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium (Dentalium) cf. texasianum" = Paradentalium americanum, "Dentalium (Antalis) sp." = Antalis
"Dentalium (Dentalium) cf. texasianum" = Paradentalium americanum Chenu 1843 tusk shell Subspecies: Dentalium (Dentalium) texasianum rioense
"Dentalium (Antalis) sp." = Antalis Adams and Adams 1854 tusk shell | |
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? Orinella salinae1, ? Orinella (Cricolophus) humboldti1, Chrysallida salinensis1, "Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) pustulella" = Chemnitzia1
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Bittiolum caribense1, Portoricia salinensis1, Cerithium cf. eburneum1, Bittium (Brachybittium) caraboboensis1, Bittium (Brachybittium) venezuelanum1, Bittium (Brachybittium) salinae1, Bittium (Brachybittium) palitoense1
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"Murex (Chicoreus) ? brevifrons" = Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons1
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Bivalvia | |
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"Arca (Arca) imbricata" = Lamarcka imbricata2
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"Corbula (Julicorbula) aequivalvis" = Juliacorbula aequivalvis2, Corbula (Caryocorbula) cf. lavalleana2
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Macrocallista maculata2, Anomalocardia brailiana2, Anomalocardia venezuelana2, "Chione (Chione) cancellata" = Chione cancellata2, "Pitar (Pitar) albida" = Pitar albidus2
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