Where: Colombia (4.5° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° S, 51.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Mytiloides kossmati - Mytiloides mytiloides inoceramid zone, La Frontera Formation (Villeta Group), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46998: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Whiteinella archaeocretacea Pessagno 1967 | |
Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite | |
Vascoceras proprium Reyment 1954 ammonite
Fagesia sp. Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
Pseudaspidoceras nodosum ammonite
Watinoceras coloradoense Henderson 1908 ammonite
Watinoceras reesidei Warren 1930 ammonite
Mammites powelli Kennedy et al. 1987 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Mytiloides kossmati clam
Mytiloides labiatus Schlotheim 1813 clam
Mytiloides mytiloides Mantell 1822 clam | |
Anomia colombiana n. sp.
Anomia colombiana n. sp. jingle |