PM1-Eastern Coahuila(MEX) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (27.0° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 55.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barril Viejo Shale Member, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, calcareous shale

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1940. Neocomian Faunas of Northern Mexico. Geological Society America Bulletin 51(1):117-190 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2148: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 23.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus cornejoi Castillo and Aguilera 1895 worm shell
"cornejoi var. varians" - originally entered as "Vermetus cornejoi var. varians"
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra putnami" = Aetostreon subsinuatum Leymerie 1842 oyster
Exogyra reedi Imlay 1937 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Prohinnites ordonesi Imlay 1940 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea biangulata Imlay 1940 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
cf. Pholadomya gigantea Sowerby 1836 clam
originally entered as "Pholadomya cf. gigantea"
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
cf. Trigonia caudata clam
originally entered as "Trigonia cf. caudata"