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 shale zone above greensand, just below the Querecual Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic shale
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 87945: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.03.2009, edited by Pete Wagner and Briony Mamo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Parasilesites kilianiformis Fallot 1910 ammonite
Puzosia quenstedti Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
Puzosia lata Seitz 1931 ammonite
Puzosia media Seitz 1931 ammonite | |
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"Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys
"Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite SUBSPECIES: Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys majoricense
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