Where: Venezuela (10.8° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 63.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Globoratalia miocenica foram zone, Cerro Negro Member (Araya Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Araya Fm of the Cubagua Gp (Late Miocene-Pliocene), which overlies the La Güica Fm. THICKNESS: From a formation that has a maximum thickness of 164 m at its type section. AGE: Late Pliocene on the basis of planktonic foraminifera. Belongs to the Globoratalia miocenica zone(3.2-2.4 Ma) according to Castro and Mederos, 1997. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list for the formation at this section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Landau in 2003-2007
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: B. Landau and colleagues, over "last five years". REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Centro de Geologia da Universidad de Lisboa, Camp Grande, Portugal, NHM Vienna, and personal collection of B. Landau.
Primary reference: B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111010: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Bactrospira) caronensis Mansfield 1925 turret shell
Turritella (Bactrospira) planigyrata Guppy 1867 turret shell | |
Serpulorbis papulosus Guppy 1866 worm shell | |
Ficus carbasea Guppy 1866 fig shell | |
Oliva immortua Pilsbry and Brown 1917 olive snail
Oliva reticularis Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
Eburna caroniana Maury 1925 snail | |
Hesperisternia corrugata Gabb 1873 true whelk
Solenosteira (Solenosteira) magdalenensis Weisbord 1929 true whelk | |
Fusinus vonderschmidti Rutsch 1934 snail | |
Nassarius trinitatensis Jung 1969 snail | |
Conus imitator Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cone shell
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 cone shell | |
Clathrodrillia gatunensis Toula 1909 snail
Hindsiclava caroniana Maury 1925 snail | |
Conomitra caribbeana Weisbord 1929 ribbed mitre
Fusiturricula springvaleensis Mansfield 1925 ribbed mitre | |
Turbinella trinitatis Maury 1925 snail | |
Persicula lavelana Hodson 1927 snail | |
Prunum calypsonis Maury 1925 margin shell | |
Jenneria loxahatcheensis Smith 1936 Jenner's Cowry | |
Muracypraea grahami Ingram 1947 cowry
Pseudozonaria fehsei Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 cowry | |
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Bursa rugosa Sowerby 1835 frog shell | |
Mammilla arepa Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 moon snail
Stigmaulax beaumonti Rutsch 1934 moon snail | |
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) subsutum" = Crucibulum subsutum Guppy 1867 slipper shell
Crepidula maculosa Conrad 1846 slipper shell
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell | |
Turbo (Senectus) castanea Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) pascaleae Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 top snail | |
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial |