"BOURDONES", Beds (misspelled)

See BORDONES, Beds

BORDONES, Beds

CRETACEOUS

State of Sucre, Venezuela

Author of name: unknown.

Original reference: C. J. Maury, 1925, p. 413.

Original description: none

Maury (1925, p. 413) writes: "Possibly Bourdones beds in the State of Sucre, eastern Venezuela, with Trigonia boussingaulti belong here" (that is in the Aptian). "Trigonia boussingaulti is an Aptian species from Bogotá, Colombia, but the Bourdones shell could not be positively identified. The tentative identification by Etheridge, 1860, led Wall to think that this horizon might be Neocomian, but the matter requires further investigation, as Wall wrote in 1860".

We have not been able to consult Wall's paper, nor do we know to which of the two publications by Wall, which appear in 1860, Maury was referring.

The locality "Bourdones" is probably Bordones, a small town southwest of Cumaná. Probably, the fossil locality is in the Barranquin formation, since Trigonia boussingaulti, according to Royo y Gómez (1953, p. 144 145) is synonym of Trigonia (Quadritrigonia) hondaana (Lea), which Royo has identified from various localities in the Barranquin. In any event, the name, Bordones beds, does not seem to have been used by any modern author.

Frances de Rivero