Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.1° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 51.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Harbledownense ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Sierra de Santa Rosa Formation), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología,
•Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Hermosillo, with collection numbers with the prefix ERNO
Primary reference: D. Szűcs, C. M. González-León, and J. Pálfy. 2019. Ammonoid biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Lower Jurassic sections from Sonora (northwest Mexico) and their tectonic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 93:267-282 [J. Pálfy/D. Juhász/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 208257: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 26.03.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paltechioceras cf. harbledownense ammonite
Paltechioceras cf. boehmi Hug 1899 ammonite
Palaeoechioceras sp. Spath 1929 ammonite |