Biology:Pseudoosterella ubalaensis
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| Genus: | Pseudoosterella
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| Species: | P. ubalaensis Haas, 1960
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Pseudoosterella ubalaensis is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod species belonging to the genus Pseudoosterella in the family of Oosterellidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Early Cretaceous; Valanginian and Berriasian epochs. The species was first described by Haas in 1960.[1]
Etymology
The species epithet is derived from Ubalá, Cundinamarca, where the species has been found.[1] In Muysccubun, the language of the Muisca, Ubalá means "Place on the hillside" or "At the foot of the hillside".[2]
Distribution
Fossils of Pseudoosterella ubalaensis have been found in Valanginian to Berriasian black shales of the Murca Formation,[3] belonging to the Cáqueza Group, outcropping near Ubalá,[4][5] and Labranzagrande, Boyacá.[6]
See also
- List of flora and fauna named after the Muisca
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pseudoosterella ubalaensis - Fossilworks
- ↑ (in Spanish) Etymology Ubalá
- ↑ Moreno, 1990, p.76
- ↑ Piraquive et al., 2011, p.207
- ↑ Dorado Galindo, 1990, p.23
- ↑ Pseudoosterella ubalaensis
Bibliography
- Dorado Galindo, Jorge. 1990. Contribución al Conocimiento de la Estratigrafía de la Formación Brechas de Buenavista (Límite Jurásico-Cretácico). Región Noroeste de Villavicencio (Meta). Geología Colombiana 17. 7-38. Accessed 2017-03-29.
- Moreno M., Juan Manuel. 1990. Stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Rosablanca and Cumbre Formations, Utica Sandstone and Murca Formation, West Flank, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Geología Colombiana 17. 65-86. Accessed 2017-03-29.
- Piraquive, Alejandro; Juan Sebastián Díaz; Tomas Cuéllar; Germán Pardo, and & Andreas Kammer. 2011. Reactivación Neógena de estructuras de rift del Cretácico Temprano asociadas con la Falla de Chámeza, Pajarito, Boyacá (Colombia): evidencias tectónicas y bioestratigráficas - Neogene reactivation of Early Cretaceous rift structures associated with the Chámeza Fault, Pajarito, Boyacá (Colombia): tectonic and biostratigraphic evidences. Geología Colombiana 36. 197-216. Accessed 2017-03-29.
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