Also known as Bahía de Santa Fé

Where: Venezuela (9.0° N, 63.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.8° N, 20.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Taguarumo Member (Barranquín Formation), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• "[The material] was collected from several different limestone horizons of the Barranquin Fm. in the upper two-thirds of the section exposed at Santa Fe. There are almost 1000 meters of section between oldest and the youngest fossiliferous horizons. However, no zonation of species was noticed and the same forms that are present in the youngest horizon are found in the oldest fossil bed."

•JA: closest correlation is with "Neocomian or possibly Barremian" faunas of Europe, but because there "seems to be no hiatus between the Barranquín and the overlying Lower Aptian El Cantil formation, the Barranquín formation probably also represents the Barremian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Collected by E. von der Osten

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Ministerio de Minas e Hidrocarburos collection

Primary reference: E. von der Osten. 1957. A fauna from the lower Cretaceous Barranquin Formation of Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 31(3):571-590 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90538: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 04.08.2009, edited by Mike Sommers

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