San José de Gracia Quarry (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.7° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

• "poorly carbonated marls, showing regular gradation and deposited in finely laminated parallel strata."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega, K. M. Cantalice, J. A. Díaz-Cruz, C. Castañeda-Posadas, and V. Zavaleta-Villareal. 2020. Vertebrate fossils from the San José de Gracia quarry, a new Late Cretaceous marine fossil site in Puebla, Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 72(1) [M. Uhen/N. Brand/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215805: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nickolas Brand on 23.11.2020, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Buapichthys gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Buapichthys gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
IGM 13951, 13952
Actinopteri
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet.
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring
 Sphenocephaliformes - Sphenocephalidae
Xenyllion sp.
Xenyllion sp. Wilson and Murray 1996
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp.
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
 Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Dercetis sp.
Dercetis sp. Agassiz 1834
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Yaguarasaurinae indet.
Yaguarasaurinae indet. Palci et al. 2013 mosasaur