ammonites
Las Cinco Ceibas (Cretaceous to of Venezuela)

Where: State of Sucre, Venezuela (10.4° N, 63.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 33.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Barranquin Formation), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• upper Barranquin formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• The corals are wholly hermatypic or reef-building types. They represent an assemblage indicative of quiet waters- shallow lagoons behind reefs.

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 78595: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 11.02.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Uta Merkel