Mesitas del Colegio: Turonian (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (4.5° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 51.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Mytiloides kossmati - Mytiloides mytiloides inoceramid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. Villamil. 1996. Paleobiology of two new species of the bivalve Anomia from Colombia and Venezuela and the importance of the genus in recognition of the base of the Turonian. Cretaceous Research 17:607-632 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46998: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Fagesia sp. Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite
Vascoceras proprium Reyment 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mammites powelli Kennedy et al. 1987 ammonite
Watinoceras coloradoense Henderson 1908 ammonite
Watinoceras reesidei Warren 1930 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides labiatus Schlotheim 1813 clam
Mytiloides mytiloides Mantell 1822 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia colombiana n. sp. jingle
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Marginotruncanidae
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840