Punta Espada, La Guajira (pg. 150) (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.1° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 42.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not reported. AGE: Early Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List representative of group of beds in local area.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not translated. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bürgl

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: H. Bürgl. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: H. Bürgl. 1960. Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):129-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97676: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic fossils. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Venezoliceras sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras)
"Venezoliceras sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) Spath 1925 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae