Where: Nuevo León, Mexico (25.0° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.3° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Caja Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• Late Early to early Late Kimmeridgian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M.-C. Buchy, E. Frey, W. Stinnesback and J. G. Lopez-Oliva. 2006. An annotated catalogue of the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian) marine reptiles in the collections of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Linares, Mexico. Oryctos 6:1-18 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 142849: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 17.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874 plesiosaur UANL-FCT-R7, Four and a half caudal cervical corpora, and adhering portions of the coracoids
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Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur UANL-FCT-R5, Isolated dorsal corpus, with the ventral part of the neural arch and right transverse process
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