Where: Venezuela (10.0° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 41.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Machiques Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Machiques Fm, which regionally overlies the Tibu Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the Piche Fm (Albian. AGE: Early to Late Aptian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From uppermost part of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Renz; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Presumably, Renz. REPOSITORY: Museum of Natural History, Basel.
Primary reference: O. Renz. 1982. The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela 1-132 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87909: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Deshayesites rotundatus Riedal 1938 ammonite
? Deshayesites nodosus Riedal 1938 ammonite
Deshayesites columbianus Riedal 1938 ammonite | |
"Deshayesites stutzeri" = Neodeshayesites stutzeri
"Deshayesites stutzeri" = Neodeshayesites stutzeri Riedal 1938 ammonite |