Punta Espada, La Guajira - 38-42 m (pg. 148) (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.1° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 39.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 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 beds between 38 m and 42 m in local section.

• 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 97674: 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.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
"Australiceras aff. ramososeptatum" = Pseudoaustraliceras ramososeptatum, Pedioceras caquesense
"Australiceras aff. ramososeptatum" = Pseudoaustraliceras ramososeptatum Anthula 1899 ammonite
Pedioceras caquesense Karsten 1858 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Leptoceratoididae
"Karsteniceras beyrichi" = Karsteniceras beyrichii
"Karsteniceras beyrichi" = Karsteniceras beyrichii Karsten 1858 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
Pulchellia (Pulchellia) galeata ammonite
SUBSPECIES: Pulchellia (Pulchellia) galeata galeata, ornata
"Heinzia (Gerhardtia) galeatoides" = Pulchellia (Heinzia) ammonite
"Heinzia (Heinzia) aff. provincialis" = Pulchellia (Heinzia) ammonite
"Heinzia (Carstenia) lindigii" = Pulchellia (Heinzia) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Pseudohaploceras cf. incertum, "Pseudohaploceras cf. liptoviense" = Pseudohaploceras liptoviensis
"Pseudohaploceras cf. liptoviense" = Pseudohaploceras liptoviensis Zeuschner 1856 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras velledae" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae Michelin 1834 ammonite
SUBSPECIES: Phylloceras velledae velledae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster