Cumarebo Oil field collection (Miocene to of Venezuela)

Where: Falcon, Venezuela (7.0° N, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 69.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammonal zone zone, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Part of the Damsite series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: yellow claystone and siliciclastic

• Quiet water setting, presumably marine.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1937. Gyrocarpus and other fossil plants from the Cumarebo field in Venezuela. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 27(12):501-506 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31244: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 25.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
 Rosales - Mimosaceae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Sapotaceae