TU 1025 - Nueva Teapa-Ixhuatlán [Concepción Fm] (Miocene of Mexico)

Where: Veracruz-Llave, Mexico (19.1° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 93.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Concepción Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Concepción Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Miocene, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown position within formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIIFCATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92609: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in taxonomic treatments. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Siratus) miltos n. sp.3 murex snail
Poirieria (Panamurex) alaquaensis2 Mansfield 1935 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Distorsio clathrata1 Lamarck 1816 snail