Where: Falcon, Venezuela (11.2° N, 70.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 11.6° N, 67.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Urumaco Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Urumaco Formation, which overlies the Socorro Formation (Middle-Late Miocene) and is overlain by the Codore Formation (late Miocene-early Pliocene). From the upper member of the Urumaco Formation on the basis of geographic position (Hendy et al., unpublished data). AGE: Late Miocene, based on recent foraminiferal biostratigraphy (Smith et al., 2010) and Sr analyses (Hendy et al., unpublished data); upper Middle Miocene in Hodson & Hodson (1931).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hodson; reposited in the PRI

Primary reference: F. Hodson and H. K. Hodson. 1931. Some Venezuelan Mollusks. Bulletins of American Paleontology 16(59):1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155789: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.05.2014

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