Los Arcos, Olinalá, Unit 2 (Permian of Mexico)

Where: Guerrero, Mexico (17.8° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 42.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olinalá Formation, Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

• Also called "Los Arcos" formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Instituto de Geología, UNAM (IGM)

Primary reference: C. González-Arreola, A. B. Villaseñor-Martínez, and R. Corona-Esquivel. 1994. Permian fauna of the Los Arcos Formation, Municipality of Olinalá, State of Guerrero, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 11:214-221 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232710: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.12.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis sp. Benediktova 1956
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
"Pseudogastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense
"Pseudogastrioceras roadense" = Roadoceras roadense Böse 1919 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
"Stacheoceras toumanskyae" = Stacheoceras toumanskayae
"Stacheoceras toumanskyae" = Stacheoceras toumanskayae Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite