535A 1981 (Triassic of Mexico)

Also known as La Higuera: Estrato A

Where: Sonora, Mexico (28.6° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 46.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Clara Formation (Barranca Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Zambrano Garcia and R. Weber. 1985. Nuevo ensayo de un panorama de la paleoecologia de comunidades de la tafoflora Santa Clara (Triasico Tardio, Sonora). III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia. Mexico. Simposio sobre Floras del Triasico Tardio, Su Fitogeografia y Paleoecologia. Memoria 153-163 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24032: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 29.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Macrotaeniopteris
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Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869
Macropterygium
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Macropterygium sp. Schimper 1870
 Bennettitales -
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Alethopteris whitneyi Newberry 1876
Polypodiopsida
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
"Pecopteris falcatus" = Asterocarpus falcatus, Mertensides spp.
"Pecopteris falcatus" = Asterocarpus falcatus Emmons 1856
Mertensides spp. Fontaine 1883
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
? Phyllotheca sp. Brongniart 1828
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 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae