San Luis Potosi, Hippurites resectus level (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: San Luis Potosi, Mexico (22.1° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 71.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Oviedo, J. M. Pons, Y. Pichardo-Barron Aguilar-Perez and G. Alencaster. 2007. Stratigraphical distribution of the Hippuritid Rudists in the Upper Cretaceous of central Mexico. 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162689: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 02.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
"Durania arnaudi" = Durania cornupastoris
"Durania arnaudi" = Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist