Quebrada Maraca [Timbetes Mbr, La Luna Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (9.8° N, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 50.4° 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 unknown position within member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but said to be facies which become euxinic, from a shale lateral equivalent.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone, dark gray, hard, dense, splintery and weather to be a light gray color. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Morales

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: M. Morales. 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 88353: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Protexanites sp.
Protexanites sp. Matsumoto 1955 ammonite