Where: Ecuador (1.0° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 51.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "T" Limestones Member (Napo Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, hardground limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. G. Bulot, W. J. Kennedy, E. Jaillard and E. Robert. 2005. Late Middle-early Late Albian ammonites from Ecuador. Cretaceous Research 26:450-459 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/L. Bulot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56769: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.11.2005, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Neithea syriaca Conrad 1852 scallop
Neithea texana Roemer 1852 scallop | |
Pseudolimea blancensis file clam | |
Ceratostreon boussingaulti d'Orbigny 1842 oyster | |
Oscillopha syphax oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Oxytropidoceras (Benavidesites) karsteni" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni
"Oxytropidoceras (Benavidesites) karsteni" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni Stieler 1920 ammonite This ID in text but listed as Venezoliceras karsteni in section
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