Where: Trujillo, Venezuela (9.6° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 47.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Barroisiceras ammonoid zone, Timbetes Member (La Luna Formation), Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Timbetes Mbr of the La Luna Fm, which regionally overlies the Chejendé Mbr, La Puya and Peñas Altas Fms (Albian-Aptian) and is overlain by the Colón Fm. AGE: Early Coniacian; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Barroisiceras zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Collected by Renz
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: O. Renz. REPOSITORY: Renz coll., Compania, Shell de Venezuela.
Primary reference: O. Renz. 1982. The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela 1-132 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88268: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites inornatus Meek 1862 ammonite | |
"Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) subtuberculatum" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata
"Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) subtuberculatum" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata Gerhardt 1897 ammonite | |
"Barroisiceras (Texasia) dentatocarinatum" = Barroisiceras (Texanites) dentatocarinatum, ? Solgerites sp., Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) aff. onilahyense, Forresteria sp., Forresteria stantoni, Forresteria pitalensis, "? Harleites sp." = Forresteria (Harleites)
"Barroisiceras (Texasia) dentatocarinatum" = Barroisiceras (Texanites) dentatocarinatum Roemer 1849 ammonite
? Solgerites sp. Reeside 1932 ammonite
Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) aff. onilahyense Basse 1947 ammonite
Forresteria sp. Reeside 1932 ammonite
Forresteria stantoni Reeside 1932 ammonite
Forresteria pitalensis Steinmann 1881 ammonite
"? Harleites sp." = Forresteria (Harleites) Reeside 1932 ammonite | |
Paralenticeras sieversi Gerhardt 1897 ammonite |