Falcón [Santa Inés Fm] (Miocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 67.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Inés Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Santa Inés Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene in Woodring (1964); Eocene-Miocene in Venezuelan Lexicon. 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. 1959. Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96487: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquensis ark
SUBSPECIES: Anadara (Grandiarca) chiriquensis
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus canoasensis Olsson 1931 mussel
SUBSPECIES: Mytilus canoasensis vidali