Cerro de Palotes: Kimmeridgian, Mexico
collected 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ophthalmosauridae
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Ophthalmosauridae indet.
Andrews 1910
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| IGM 0001 | ||||||||||
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= Acuetzpalin carranzai n. gen., n. sp.
Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 2020
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Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 2020 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Durango |
| Coordinates: | 24.7° North, 103.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.1° North, 53.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | La Casita |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | red,white lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1980 |
| Collection method comments: In 1980, one ichthyosaur specimens from the Cerro de Palotes was prepared to be included in the exhibition of the Museo de Geología of the UNAM; this was not properly studied then. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | near Cuencamé | ||
| Database number: | 207509 | ||
| Authorizer: | G. Lloyd, M. Carrano | Enterer: | G. Lloyd, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-01-15 12:23:35 | Last modified: | 2022-07-01 12:30:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-01-15 12:23:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82056. | E. Frey and W. Stinnesbeck. 2014. Mexican ichthyosaurs. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 99-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 71507 | J. I. Barrientos-Lara and J. Alvarado-Ortega. 2020. Acuetzpalin carranzai gen et sp. nov. A new ophthalmosauridae (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Durango, North Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 98:102456-102456 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/P. Wagner] |