Agua la Iglesia, San Juan Raya (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.3° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 54.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Juan Raya Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Approximate thickiness of 800m for the whole formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, gray, green, calcareous shale

• Gray to green calcareous shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Repository: UNAM

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, F. J. Vega, P. García-Barrera, R. Rico-Montiel, and L. Martínez López. 1995. A new species of Meyeria (Decapoda: Mecochiridae) from San Juan Raya Formation (Aptian: Cretaceous), Puebla State, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 69(2):402-406 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64015: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 29.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
wood fragments
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Meyeria pueblaensis n. sp. Feldmann and Vega 1995 decapod
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
unclassified
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