Acatlan de la Cruz, SE of [Pochote Fm] (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (19.4° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pochote Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray lime mudstone and lithified, gray shale

• Consists of dark gray to black, thinly bedded, (>1cm) and/or laminated (<1cm) lime mudstone, interbedded with dark gray shale in centimeter-thick beds.

Primary reference: E. Cabral-Cano, H. R. Lang, and C. G. A. Harrison. 2000. Stratigraphic Assessment of the Arcelia-Teloloapan area, Southern Mexico: Implications for Southern Mexico's Post-Neocomian Tectonic Evolution. Journal of South American Earth Science 13:443-457 [A. Miller/D. Schramm/D. Schramm]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42270: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Danielle Schramm on 27.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Calcisphaerula innomiata
Protozoa
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Stomiosphaera sphaerica
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Parahoplites sp.
Parahoplites sp. Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
"Dufrenoya aff. furcata" = Dufrenoyia
"Dufrenoya aff. furcata" = Dufrenoyia ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites sp.
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite