Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.1° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.9° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Subthurmannia boissieri ammonoid zone, Sabinal Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Coleccion de Paleontología de Coahuila (CPC), at the Museo del Desierto, Saltillo, Coahuila state, Mexico
Primary reference: P. Zell, W. Stinnesbeck, S. Beckmann, T. Adatte, and F. Hering. 2015. The Berriasian-Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) boundary transition at Santa Catarina Ticuá, Oaxaca state, southern Mexico: ammonites, bivalves, calpionellids and their paleobiogeographic significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 62:33-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171678: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Arctotis cretacea Felix 1890 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudosubplanites cf. jauberti Mazenot 1939 ammonite | |
? Sarasinella sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite |