Quebrada la Gé, Perijá foothills [Cogollo Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (10.0° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 41.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cogollo Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cogollo Fm, which regionally overlies the Tibu Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the La Lollo Fm (Albian. AGE: Late Aptian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Apparently from "La Lollo facies".

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dark nodular limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Renz

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: O. Renz. REPOSITORY: Renz collection, Compania Shell de Venezuela.

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 87911: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Dufrenoyia justinae, Dufrenoyia aff. furcata
Dufrenoyia justinae Hill 1893 ammonite
Dufrenoyia aff. furcata Sowerby 1836 ammonite