Monastery 'Santo Ecco Homo', Villa de Leiva, Boyaca (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (5.6° N, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 42.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• "Unfortunately Creutzberg did not study the precise stratigraphy of the localities from which he collected the fossils; only stages are indicated on the specimens' labels."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: the fossils were collected by Peter Hans Creutzberg during the years 1967 to 1976

Primary reference: M. V. Kakabadze and P. J. Hoedemaeker. 1997. New and less known Barremian-Albian Ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica 114:57-117 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69058: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on Early Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites; the present paper contains only the descriptions of new species and those that have not been described from Colombia before, others are merely identified and figured.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
Karsteniceras multicostatum n. sp. Kakabadze and Hoedemaeker 1997 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Pedioceras caquesense Karsten 1858 ammonite
abundance data for P. caquesense based on number of figured specimens
Pedioceras asymmetricum n. sp. Kakabadze and Hoedemaeker 1997 ammonite
Paracrioceras ex gr. barremense Kilian 1895 ammonite
Ancyloceras cf. vandenheckii Astier 1851 ammonite
one specimen of A. vandenheckii vandenheckii and 6 specimens of A. vandenheckii velezianum
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites aff. emerici Leveille 1835 ammonite
Crioceratites leivaensis n. sp. Kakabadze and Hoedemaeker 1997 ammonite