Also known as Las Chinitas
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 24041: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 29.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Macrotaeniopteris | |
Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Mertensides sp., "Pecopteris falcatus" = Asterocarpus falcatus
Mertensides sp. Fontaine 1883
"Pecopteris falcatus" = Asterocarpus falcatus Emmons 1856 | |
Pteropsida | |
Alethopteris whitneyi Newberry 1876 | |
Desmiophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1878 | |
Elatocladus carolinensis podocarp |