Where: San Luis Potosi, Mexico (21.3° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 49.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Taman Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Zone 2 alpha2 - Revision of chronostraphic assignment based on Baumgartner et al. (1995)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original silica
Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric,
• Radiolarians only
Primary reference: D. M. Hull. 1997. Upper Jurassic Tethyan and Southern Boreal radiolarians from western North America. Micropaleontology 43(S2):1-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50754: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
"Acanthocircus protoformis" = Eospongosaturninus protoformis
"Acanthocircus protoformis" = Eospongosaturninus protoformis Yao 1972 radiolarian | |
Perispyridium tamanense radiolarian | |
? Triactoma sp. RĂ¼st 1885 radiolarian | |
Podobursa rosea radiolarian | |
Parvicingula sp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian | |
Parahsuum cf. transiens radiolarian | |
Napora vegaensis radiolarian
"Napora moctezumaensis" = Napora bukryi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
"Napora lospensis" = Napora bukryi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian | |
Phantum insperatum radiolarian | |
Pseudocrucella haeckeli radiolarian
Tetraditryma emilei radiolarian
Tetratrabs bulbosa Baumgartner 1980 radiolarian
Crucella bisulca radiolarian | |
Paronaella carteri radiolarian
? Paronaella festiva radiolarian
Paronaella cf. obesa Pessagno 1977 radiolarian | |
? Tritrabs imperfecta radiolarian
Tritrabs mexicana radiolarian
"Neoparonaella chocoyaensis" = Neoparonaella delicata Yang 1993 radiolarian | |
Acastea prolixa radiolarian
Lanubus sp. Pessagno and Yang 1989 radiolarian | |
Teichertus cavernosus radiolarian
Teichertus splendicus radiolarian | |
Gorgansium sp. Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Protovallupus sp. Pessagno and MacLeod 1987 radiolarian
Protovallupus tetlamaensis Pessagno and MacLeod 1987 radiolarian
Protovallupus vaticinus Pessagno and MacLeod 1987 radiolarian |