NMB Loc. 17516 - Casa Cantaure [Cantaure Fm]: Early/Lower Miocene, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Litiopidae
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Ipunina vladimiri
Nielsen and Frassinetti 2008
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Beu 2010 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Monoplex jackwinorum
Beu 2010
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Beu 2010 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Monoplex ritteri
(Schmelz 1989)
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Beu 2010 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
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Monoplex cercadicus
(Maury 1917)
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bursidae
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Bursa rugosa
(Sowerby 1835)
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Beu 2010 | 37 specimens | ||||||||
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Bursa rhodostoma
(Sowerby 1835)
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Beu 2010 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Cypraecassis testiculus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| B. Landau collection | ||||||||||
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Sconsia laevigata
(Guppy 1850)
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Beu 2010 | 25 specimens | ||||||||
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Semicassis aldrichi
(Dall 1890)
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Beu 2010 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Tonnidae
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Eudolium subfasciatum
Sacco 1890
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Beu 2010 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Personidae
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Distorsio jungi n. sp.
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Beu 2010 | 95 specimens | ||||||||
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Distorsio mcgintyi
Emerson and Puffer 1953
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Beu 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Harpidae
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Morum (Oniscidia) jungi
Landau 1996
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Landau 1996 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Sincola (Dorsina) pigea
(Olsson 1964)
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Jung 1994 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Cancellaria (Cancellaria) hodsonae
Landau and Petit 1997
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Bivetiella) jungi
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Bivetiella | ||||||||||
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Narona barystoma
(Woodring 1970)
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
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Axelella yara
Landau and Petit 2007
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
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Cancellaria (Charcolleria) emilyvokesae
Landau and Petit 1996
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
| recombined as Massyla emilyvokesae | ||||||||||
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Cancellaria (Massyla) cantaurana
Landau and Petit 1996
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Landau and Petit 1996 | |||||||||
| recombined as Massyla cantaurana | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Falcon |
| Coordinates: | 11.9° North, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 66.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cantaure | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Miocene. Cantaure Formation. No further stratigraphic data | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: No lithologic data provided. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: No paleoenvironmental data provided. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMB |
| Collection method comments: Reposited in Naturhistorische Museum Basel. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list based on single taxa described in paper. Further species to be added from Jung (1965) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41832 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-21 09:53:11 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2006-07-21 09:53:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11267. | J. Gibson-Smith and W. Gibson-Smith. 1988. Further notes on Eudolium (Galeodolium) subfasciatum. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 21:119 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 30037 | A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 19070 | P. Jung. 1994. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology 106(344):1-45 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 11193 | B.M. Landau and R. E. Petit. 1996. New species of Cancellaroidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the lower Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:145-150 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 11192 | B.M. Landau. 1996. A new species of Morum (Gastropoda: Harpidae) from the lower Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:53-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |