Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.9° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cantaure Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Clays, sandstone, and limestones of up to 75, thick, although no single section is completely exposed. Collection apparently derived from near middle part of that thickness. Overlies unconformably Cretaceous rocks and is conformably overlain by limestones on middle to upper Miocene. Jung (1965) regarded the collection as early Middle Miocene, though more recent authors, including Vermeij (2001) indicate an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. Formation formerly referred to as "Cerro Pelado".
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, NMB, PRI, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• All material is reposited in the Natural History Museum (NMB), Basel, Switzerland, with some voucher specimens in the British Museum, PRI, and USNM.
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60710: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) venada cerith snail | |
Turritella cf. venezuelana Hodson 1926 turret shell
Turritella matarucana Hodson 1926 turret shell
Turritella cocoditana Hodson 1926 turret shell | |
Polinices nelsoni moon snail
Neverita paraguanensis Hodson 1927 moon snail | |
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"Marginocypraea wegeneri" = Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
"Marginocypraea wegeneri" = Sphaerocypraea wegeneri Schilder 1939 snail | |
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Turbinella falconensis Hodson 1931 snail | |
Knefastia kugleri, "Knefastia aff. lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis
Knefastia kugleri ribbed mitre
"Knefastia aff. lavinoides" = Knefastia limonensis Olsson 1922 ribbed mitre | |
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"Oliva (Oliva) cf. cylindrica" = Oliva cylindrica
"Oliva (Oliva) cf. cylindrica" = Oliva cylindrica Sowerby 1850 olive snail | |
"Cancellaria (Charcolleria) terryi" = Massyla terryi
"Cancellaria (Charcolleria) terryi" = Massyla terryi Olsson 1942 snail | |
Latirus cf. tumbeziensis snail | |
Cymatophos cocoditoensis true whelk | |
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Voluta vautrini Jung 1965 volute | |
Prunum (Prunum) quirosense Hodson 1927 margin shell | |
"Terebra (Strioterebrum) "sp C."" = Strioterebrum, "Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa" = Strioterebrum ulloa, Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera
"Terebra (Strioterebrum) "sp C."" = Strioterebrum Sacco 1891 auger snail
"Terebra (Strioterebrum) ulloa" = Strioterebrum ulloa Olsson 1932 auger snail
Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera Sowerby 1849 auger snail | |
Conus talis Jung 1965 cone shell
Conus aff. molis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 cone shell | |
Polystira barretti Guppy 1866 turrid | |
Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana Weisbord 1929 snail | |
"Borsonia (Paraborsonia) cantaurana" = Paraborsonia
"Borsonia (Paraborsonia) cantaurana" = Paraborsonia snail | |
Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) fortis" = Caryocorbula fortis
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) fortis" = Caryocorbula fortis Jung 1965 clam | |
Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis, "Chione (Chionopsis) paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum, "Cyclinella venezuelana" = Cyclinella cyclica, Clementia (Clementia) dariena
Pitar (Pitarella) paraguanensis Hodson 1927 venus
"Chione (Chionopsis) paraguanensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum Brown and Pilsbry 1911 venus clam
"Cyclinella venezuelana" = Cyclinella cyclica Guppy 1866 venus clam
Clementia (Clementia) dariena Conrad 1855 venus clam | |
"Mactra (Micromactra) maracaibensis" = Mactrotoma
"Mactra (Micromactra) maracaibensis" = Mactrotoma surfclam | |
"Psammacoma cf. falconensis" = Psammacoma gatunensis, Tellina (Eurytellina) paraguanensis
"Psammacoma cf. falconensis" = Psammacoma gatunensis Toula 1909 tellin clam
Tellina (Eurytellina) paraguanensis Hodson 1931 tellin clam |