Where: Venezuela (10.2° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 64.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Rita Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Late Eocene, P15/16 foraminiferal zones (Jones, 2013)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland.

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1937. Beiträge zur Kenntnis tropisch-americkanischer Tertiärmollusken. VI. Some Tertiary nautiloids from Venezuela and Trinidad. Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae 30(1):59-73 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81877: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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