Where: Monagas, Venezuela (10.2° N, 63.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 32.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Epicheloniceras martinoides ammonoid zone, Valle Grande Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Valle Grande Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Aptian; Gargasiebn; martinoides zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal shale within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sideritic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with siderite

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectoprs. REPOSITORY: Guillaume collection, Compania Shell de Venezuela; 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 87917: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.03.2009

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