A-9775: Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian, Venezuela
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea (Neitheops) cf. occidentalis
Conrad 1855
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Lopha scyphax
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Trujillo |
Coordinates: | 9.1° North, 70.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 1.6° North, 45.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Middle Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian |
Age range of interval: | 109.90000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cogollo | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: probabaly equivalent to A-8841 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse,gray,blue "limestone" |
Lithology description: bluish-gray, massive, hard coarsely crystalline limestone, locally very fossiliferous. grades into underlying predominately sandy Uribante Fm through a series of massive beds of hard, sandy limestones and calcareous sandstones separated by layers of softer sandy shales and calcareous shales | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 64455 | ||
Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | L. Ivany | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-09-08 21:48:01 | Last modified: | 2006-09-09 00:48:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-08 21:48:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18619. | R.F. Rutsch and A. Salvador. 1954. Mollusks from the Cogollo and La Luna Formations (Cretaceous) of the Chejende area, western Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 28(4):417-426 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany] |