USGS 13462 - Nuevo Leon, Mexico (Midway Formation) (Paleocene of Mexico)

Also known as USGS 13462

Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (25.7° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 84.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Midway Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• The Midway Formation of northeastern Mexico is divided into upper and lower divisions (members). The lower member roughly correlates to the Wills Point, Naheola, and Porters Creek Formations of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Collections show little faunal similarity to any Gulf Coast units. Stratigraphically below USGS 13485

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• Siliciclastic. No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections.

Primary reference: J. Gardner. 1945. Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico. Geological Society of American Memoir 11 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42920: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia sayi turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) aldrichi" = Vokesula aldrichi
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) aldrichi" = Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Ledina smirna Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Calorhadia (Litorhadia) santaanai Gardner 1945 pointed nut clam
Listed as "C. (L.) santa-anai"