M.94.15, Misahualli [Napo Fm] (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (1.0° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 51.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "T" Limestones Member (Napo Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, hardground limestone

• Hardground surface in the middle of the "T" limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. G. Bulot, W. J. Kennedy, E. Jaillard and E. Robert. 2005. Late Middle-early Late Albian ammonites from Ecuador. Cretaceous Research 26:450-459 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/L. Bulot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56769: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.11.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Oxytropidoceras (Benavidesites) karsteni" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni
"Oxytropidoceras (Benavidesites) karsteni" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni Stieler 1920 ammonite
This ID in text but listed as Venezoliceras karsteni in section
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea syriaca Conrad 1852 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon boussingaulti d'Orbigny 1842 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam