ammonites
Near La Leona and Los Corales, Barbacoas Syncline [La Puya Fm] (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Lara, Venezuela (10.2° N, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 42.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Puya Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the La Puya Fm, which regionally unconformably overlies the Peņas Altas Fm (Aptian) and is overlain by the La Luna Fm. AGE: Late Albian; Hoplites orbignyi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thick bedded, very fossiliferous limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Museum of Natural History, Basel.

Primary reference: O. Renz. 1982. The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela 1-132 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87952: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.03.2009

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