Where: Lara, Venezuela (9.8° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 41.3° 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 PeƱas Altas Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the La Luna Fm. AGE: Late Albian; Hoplites orbignyi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of the formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Renz; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: surface (float),
• 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 87969: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) peruvianum von Buch 1839 ammonite SUBSPECIES: Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) peruvianum multifidum
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