CU-8, Cuencame, Bed 4, Durango (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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

• marly 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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Rodighieroites belimelensis Mandov 1976 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oosterellidae
Oosterella begastrensis Company 1987 ammonite
Oosterella cultrata d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites sp. Lory 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae