18 km WSW of Escuque [La Puya Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Trujillo, Venezuela (9.3° N, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 41.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Puya Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Light grey, dense, micritic limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Renz; reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Presumably, Renz. 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 87968: 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.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aff. pachys, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum