Sucre District, Eocene age (Eocene to of Venezuela)

Where: Zulia, Venezuela (10.0° N, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 57.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1936. Tertiary plants from Venezuela. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2988):335-360 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31274: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 29.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Eugenia sp. Linnaeus 1753 myrtle
 Ericales - Sapotaceae
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Burseraceae
 Sapindales - Meliaceae
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Fabaceae indet. Lindley 1836 legume
 Rosids - Moraceae
 Gentianales - Apocynaceae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Araceae indet. de Jussieu 1789
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Lauraceae indet. Jussieu 1789 laurel