Near Hacienda San Felipe, Chejendé region [Aguada Mbr, La Luna Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Lara, Venezuela (9.4° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 46.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aguada Member (La Luna Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Aguada Mbr of the La Luna Fm, which regionally overlies the La Puya and Peñas Altas Fms (Albian-Aptian) and is overlain by the Colón Fm. AGE: Early Cenomanin. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the Aguada Mbr, La Luna Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but said to be facies which become euxinic, from a shale lateral equivalent.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by de Jong & Renz

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: J. de Jong & O. Renz. REPOSITORY: Renz and de Jong coll's, 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 88075: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Sharpeiceras occidentale" = Sharpeiceras florencae
"Sharpeiceras occidentale" = Sharpeiceras florencae Spath 1925 ammonite