NMB Loc. 13372 - Cerro Cometa [Santa Rita Fm] (Eocene of Venezuela)

Also known as K 01222

Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 63.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Rita Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Santa Rita Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Eocene; justification unknown. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENTS: No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kugler & Senn in 1929; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: H.G. Kugler & A. Senn, 1929. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland (NMB).

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 131483: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.07.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NOMENCLATURE: Identifications by P. Jung. Some species-resolution identifications, and relatively modern nomenclature. COVERAGE: Representative of molluscan fauna.
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninoides rathbunae n. sp. Van Straelen 1933 crab
 Decapoda - Inachoididae
Eoinachoides senni n. gen. n. sp.
Eoinachoides senni n. gen. n. sp. Van Straelen 1933 spider crab