Punta Espada and SE of de Cuiza, La Guajira (pg. 146) (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.1° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 39.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not translated. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Renz

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: O. Renz. 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 97673: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Not exhaustive, but fairly comprehensive. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Trigonia tocaimaana" = Notoscabrotrigonia tocaimaana
"Trigonia tocaimaana" = Notoscabrotrigonia tocaimaana Lea 1900 clam
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras perstriatum Steuer 1897 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Heteroceratidae
Heteroceras cf. helicoceroides Karsten 1858 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
"Karsteniceras beyrichi" = Karsteniceras beyrichii
"Karsteniceras beyrichi" = Karsteniceras beyrichii Karsten 1858 ammonite
 Ammonitida -
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
Nicklesia didayana ammonite
SUBSPECIES: Nicklesia didayana didayana, multifida
Nicklesia dumasiana d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
SUBSPECIES: Nicklesia dumasiana dumasiana, retrocurvata, richardsi
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Pseudohaploceras aff. liptoviense" = Pseudohaploceras liptoviensis
"Pseudohaploceras aff. liptoviense" = Pseudohaploceras liptoviensis Zeuschner 1856 ammonite