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
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
Gastropoda | |
Potamides suprasulcatus Gabb 1873 horn snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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