Where: Anzoátegui, Venezuela (10.0° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 59.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Carapita Formation), Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

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•middle Oligocene

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•Lower Carapita shale, Santa Inés formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr.Hollis Hedberg; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1944. Cretaceous, tertiary, and recent corals, a sponge, and an alga from Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 18(5):429-447 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78628: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 12.02.2008

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