Where: Venezuela (10.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 36.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chimana Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chimana Fm, which regionally overly the El Cantil Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the Querecual Fm. AGE: Middle Albian; Hoplite dentatus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the middle and upper part of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Guillaume
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: H. Guillaume. REPOSITORY: Guillaume, 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 87942: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Lyelliceras lyelli d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) moreti Mahmoud 1955 ammonite |