Augerhole near Rio El Mene (Miocene of Venezuela)

Also known as Maracaibo Basin Locality 12

Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Rosa Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Shell Caribbean Petroleum Company collections reposited at Lousiana State University

Primary reference: W. A. van den Bold. 1950. Miocene Ostracoda from Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 24(1):76-88 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93929: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Cythereis exanthemata ostracod
var. gomillionensis
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Cytheromorpha warneri Howe and Spurgeon 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Limnocytheridae
Limnocythere venezolana n. sp. ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
 Podocopida - Paradoxostomatidae