Muhi quarry (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

Where: Hidalgo, Mexico (20.8° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 64.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Negra Member (El Doctor Formation), Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified lime mudstone

• Open marine basin with a hypersaline and/or poorly oxygenated bottom
• Light gray micritic limestone sequence with intercalated black chert lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1998-present

• Repository: Museo de Paleontología, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAHMP)

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, F. J. Vega, L. Martinez-Lopez, K. A. Gonzalez-Rodrigues, O. Gonzalex-Leon and M. Rosario Fernandez-Barajas. 2007. Crustacea from the Muhi Quarry (Albian-Cenomanian), and a review of Aptian Mecochiridae (Astacidea) From Mexico. Annals of Carnegie Museum 76(3):145-156 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135815: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 10.11.2012, edited by Thomas Hegna, Josh Mordaunt, Matthew Clapham and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Palinurus sp. Weber 1795 spiny lobster
 Decapoda - Aegeridae
Aeger hidalguensis n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2007 decapod
Thylacocephala
  -
Victoriacaris muhiensis6 Hegna et al. 2014
Polzia eldoctorensis6 Hegna et al. 2014
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp.4 Whitley 1939 crow shark
 Rajiformes -
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus sp.4 Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Semionotiformes indet.4 Arambourg and Bertin 1958
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus zipapanensis n. sp.3 Fielitz and González-Rodríguez 2010
 Aulopiformes - Ichthyotringidae
 Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata4, Dalgoichthys tropicalis5
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata4 Rosen 1973
Dalgoichthys tropicalis5 González-Rodríguez et al. 2013
Holotype: UAHMP-1387
 Beryciformes - Pseudomonocentrididae
Pseudomonocentris microspinosus5 González-Rodríguez et al. 2013
Holotype: UAHMP-3721
Handuichthys interopercularis5 González-Rodríguez et al. 2013
Holotype: UAHMP-1389
 Teleostei - Xeneichthyidae
Xeneichthys yanesi n. gen. n. sp.1
Xeneichthys yanesi n. gen. n. sp.1 Arratia and González-Rodríguez 2024
UAHMP 1063, 973, 2028, 2226, 3157, 3158, 3159, 3656, 3727, 3836, 3903, 3967, 3971, 4443, 4672, 4697, 4698, 4699, 4763, 4834, 4861, 4862
 Teleostei -
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
 Ichthyodectiformes - Bardackichthyidae
Heckelichthys preopercularis2 Banos-Rodriguez et al. 2020
Holotype: UAHMP 443
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Nunaneichthys mexicanus n. gen. n. sp.7
Nunaneichthys mexicanus n. gen. n. sp.7 Hernández-Guerrero et al. 2021 bonefish
UAHMP-4232
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae