San Lazaro Anticline5 (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (25.8° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• interbedded fine-grained, blue, laminated limestone and argillaceous, finely laminated, grey-black limestone with phosphatic concretions

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1937. Lower Neocomian fossils from the Miquihuana region, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 11(7):552-574 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2135: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 22.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
"Rogersites filifer" = Olcostephanus atherstoni Sharpe 1856 ammonite
Valanginites sp. Sayn 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
aff. Distoloceras parritense Imlay 1937 ammonite
originally entered as "Distoloceras aff. D. parritense"
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
? Bochianites sp. Lory 1898 ammonite
originally entered as "Bochianites? sp."