Where: Trujillo, Venezuela (9.6° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 47.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Timbetes Member (La Luna Formation), Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Timbetes Mbr of the La Luna Fm, which regionally overlies the Chejendé Mbr, La Puya and Peñas Altas Fms (Albian-Aptian) and is overlain by the Colón Fm. AGE: Early Coniacian; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 30 m above Barroisiceras zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Renz
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: O. Renz. REPOSITORY: Renz coll., 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 88269: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ankinatsytes venezolanus n. sp.
Ankinatsytes venezolanus n. sp. Renz 1982 ammonite | |
Peroniceras aff. canaense, Solgerites romieuxi, "Forresteria alluaudi" = Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi
Peroniceras aff. canaense Gerhardt 1897 ammonite
Solgerites romieuxi Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
"Forresteria alluaudi" = Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi Boule et al. 1907 ammonite | |
Eulophoceras natalense Hyatt 1903 ammonite |