Where: Mexico (16.8° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 59.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sierra Madre Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• unit "Cretaceous limestone with Rudists"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Garcia-Barrera. 2006. Rudists of Mexico: Historical Aspects and Selected Areas of Research. in F. J. Vega, T. G. Nyborg et al., eds., Studies on Mexican Paleontology, Vol. 24 of Topics in Geobiology, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands 61-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64216: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.09.2006

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