Chipata, Santander: Aptian, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 6.1° North, 73.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.4° North, 31.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Unfortunately Creutzberg did not study the precise stratigraphy of the localities from which he collected the fossils; only stages are indicated on the specimens' labels." Aptian (?middle Aptian)
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: no information given
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: the fossils were collected by Peter Hans Creutzberg during the years 1967 to 1976
Taxonomic list comments:Focus on Early Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites; the present paper contains only the descriptions of new species and those that have not been described from Colombia before, others are merely identified and figured.
Metadata
Database number:69075
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-16 11:19:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-16 11:19:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19919.1% M. V. Kakabadze and P. J. Hoedemaeker. 1997. New and less known Barremian-Albian Ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica 114:57-117 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]