Also known as Camino Chamina-Penitas
Where: Sonora, Mexico (28.6° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 47.2° 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,
• Same as Weber et al. (1980) 79-11.
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 24061: 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 | |
Cycadolepis aff. wettsteini, Weltrichia sp., Zamites fragilis, Zamites cf. truncatus, ? Pterophyllum sp., Williamsonia sp.
Weltrichia sp. Braun 1843
Zamites cf. truncatus Zeiller 1903
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Williamsonia sp. Carruthers 1870 | |
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Elatocladus carolinensis podocarp | |
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Desmiophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1878 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |