Where: Villa De Rosario, Venezuela (10.3° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 41.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Deshayesites ammonoid zone, Machiques Member (Apon Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, replaced with silica
Collected by J. Moody
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Repository: University of Zulia, Paleontology Section Collection, Maracaibo, Venezuela (MBLUZ)
Primary reference: J. G. Maisey and J. M. Moody. 2001. A Review of the Problematic Extinct Teleost Fish Araripichthys, with a Description of a New Species from the Lower Cretaceous of Venezuela. American Museum Novitates (3324)1-27 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136757: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 04.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Araripichthys axelrodi n. sp.
Araripichthys axelrodi n. sp. Maisey and Moody 2001 |