Cerro Negro Formation (unspecified localities) (Pliocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (10.8° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Negro Formation (Cubagua Group), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cerro Negro Fm of the Cubagua Gp (Late Miocene-Pliocene), which overlies the La Güica Fm; Jung (1989) treats this as the Cerro Negro Mbr of the Cubagua Formation, but the Cubagua is now raised to group status. AGE: Early Pliocene; mostly likely falls within the Globorotalia margaritae Zone (Boli,& Bermudez, 1965; and other refs). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, presumed. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Landau

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: B. Landau. REPOSITORY: B. Landau collection.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136387: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species-resolution identifications, and modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson and Puffer 1953 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Malea sp. Valenciennes 1833 tun shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Turritriton domingensis Gabb 1873 triton shell
Monoplex cercadicus Maury 1917 triton shell
Monoplex krebsii Mörch 1877 triton shell
Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835 frog shell
Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell
Actinopteri
 Siluriformes - Ariidae
Bagre marinus Mitchill 1815 Ariid catfish