Where: Mexico (24.7° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° N, 56.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Taraises Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• base of the upper member of the formation, Neocomites peregrinus zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Gonzalez-Arreola and R. Barragan. 2007. Oosterella (Ammonoidea) from the Taraises Formation (Upper Valanginian), Durango, northeast Mexico. Cretaceous Research 28:419-427 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74352: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Rodighieroites belimelensis Mandov 1976 ammonite | |
Oosterella begastrensis Company 1987 ammonite
Oosterella cultrata d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Bochianites sp. Lory 1898 ammonite | |