Where: San Luis Potosí, Mexico (21.2° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 50.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Taman Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• "uppermost-Lower to lowermost-Upper Kimmeridgian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: IGM (UNAM) collection
Primary reference: F. Olóriz and A. B. Villaseñor. 2006. Ceratosphinctes (Ammonitina, Kimmeridgian) in Mexico: from rare but typical inhabitant of west-Tethyan epioceanic and epicontinental waters to a geographically widespread ammonite genus. Geobios 39(2):255-266 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 114686: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ochetoceras cf. neohispanicum ammonite | |
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Ceratosphinctes rachistrophus Gemmellaro 1872 ammonite "Ceratosphinctes rachistrophus amatitlaensis nov. subsp."
Idoceras sp. ammonite "of the durangense-neohispanicum-bösei Burckhardt and balderum Burckhardt non Oppel – lorioli Burckhardt morphological plexus"
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