Where: Nuevo León, Mexico (26.7° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 68.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum ammonoid zone, Vallecillo Member (Agua Nueva Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• The stratigraphic position of the specimen is indicated by the presence of the same slab of Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides, an ammonite species which occurs only in the middle-upper Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum Zone at Vallecillo
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by Margarito A. González González
• Repository: Museo La Milarca (San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León State, Mexico)
Primary reference: R. Vullo, E. Frey, C. Ifrim, M. A. González González, E. S. Stinnesbeck and W. Stinnesbeck. 2021. Manta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceans. Science 371:1253-1256 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219108: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.03.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides Choffat 1898 ammonite | |
Actinopteri | |
Paranursallia gutturosa Arambourg 1954 | |
Goulmimichthys roberti Blanco and Cavin 2003 | |
"Rhynchodercetis regio" = Hastichthys regio
"Rhynchodercetis regio" = Hastichthys regio Blanco and Alvarado-Ortega 2006 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Aquilolamna milarcae n. gen. n. sp.
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