USGS 23888. 6.2 km WNW of San José de Cordite, Paraguaná Peninsula (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Falcón, Venezuela (12.0° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: N7-N8 foram zone, Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• 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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

• soft clay shales

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Primary reference: D. J. Thomas and W. D. MacDonald. 1970. The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula. Boletin Informativo de la Asociación Venezolana de Geología. Minería y Petróleo 13:177-179 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179723: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Cerebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis Sowerby 1849 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Polystira barretti Guppy 1866 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
"Xancus falconensis" = Turbinella falconensis
"Xancus falconensis" = Turbinella falconensis Hodson 1931 snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex sp. Linnaeus 1758 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficus carbasea Guppy 1866 fig shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
"Marginocypraea wegeneri" = Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
"Marginocypraea wegeneri" = Sphaerocypraea wegeneri Schilder 1939 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
"Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial
Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Pitar (Pitarella) paraguaensis" = Agriopoma, Clementia (Clementia) dariena
"Pitar (Pitarella) paraguaensis" = Agriopoma venus
Clementia (Clementia) dariena Conrad 1855 venus clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae