Quebrada Cerro Gordo, 4 km NNE of Barbacoas [La Puya Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Lara, Venezuela (9.8° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 44.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Puya Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the La Puya Fm, which regionally unconformably overlies the PeƱas Altas Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the La Luna Fm. AGE: Late Albian; Hoplites orbignyi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thick bedded, very fossiliferous limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. 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 87951: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Bhimaites aontzyensis" = Puzosia (Bhimaites)
"Bhimaites aontzyensis" = Puzosia (Bhimaites) ammonite