Mesitas del Colegio: Turonian: Early/Lower Turonian, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Fagesia sp. Pervinquiére 1907
Vascoceras proprium (Reyment 1954)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudaspidoceras nodosum
Watinoceras reesidei Warren 1930
Watinoceras coloradoense (Henderson 1908)
Mammites powelli Kennedy et al. 1987
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia colombiana n. sp.
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides kossmati
Mytiloides mytiloides (Mantell 1822)
Mytiloides labiatus (Schlotheim 1813)
Heterohelicidae
Heterohelix globulosa (Ehrenberg 1840)
Marginotruncanidae
Whiteinella archaeocretacea Pessagno 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 4.5° North, 74.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.2° South, 51.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian Inoceramid zone: Mytiloides kossmati - Mytiloides mytiloides
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46998
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-01-29 11:14:12 Last modified:2019-04-18 13:42:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-29 11:14:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12487. T. Villamil. 1996. Paleobiology of two new species of the bivalve Anomia from Colombia and Venezuela and the importance of the genus in recognition of the base of the Turonian. Cretaceous Research 17:607-632 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]