Carapita Shale, NE Venezuela: Oligocene, Venezuela
collected by Dr.Hollis Hedberg
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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| 6 specimens | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Venezuela | State/province: | Anzoátegui |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° North, 64.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.8° North, 55.4° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 23.04 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ahermatypic corals | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | Dr.Hollis Hedberg |
Metadata
| Database number: | 78628 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-02-12 02:23:50 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26427. | J. W. Wells. 1944. Cretaceous, tertiary, and recent corals, a sponge, and an alga from Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 18(5):429-447 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] |