Where: Nuevo León, Mexico (25.4° N, 100.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.6° N, 42.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dufrenoyia justinae ammonoid zone, La Peña Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 119.6 Ma)
• Dufrenoyia scotti/Burckhardtites nazasensis subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo María del Carmen Perrilliat M., Colección Nacional de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Primary reference: R. Barragán, J. A. Moreno-Bedmar, F. Núñez-Useche, L. F. Álvarez-Sánchez, and G. Delanoy. 2021. Ammonite biostratigraphy of two stratigraphic sections of the La Peña Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) in Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico. Cretaceous Research 125(104862) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220651: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Dufrenoyia sp. Kilian and Reboul 1915 ammonite
Dufrenoyia justinae Hill 1893 ammonite | |
Colombiceras sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Colombiceras spathi Humphrey 1949 ammonite | |
Macroscaphites sp. Meek 1876 ammonite | |
Toxoceratoides sp. Spath 1924 ammonite | |
Cheloniceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite |