Mx2: La Isleta (Level 2) (Jurassic of Mexico)

Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (16.8° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 47.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Taberna Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, gray, red shale and sandy siltstone

• gray or reddish shale with red iron concretions and some beds of siltstone or sandstone.

Primary reference: J. Sandoval and G. E. G. Westermann. 1986. The Bajocian (Jurassic) ammonite fauna of Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 60(6):1220-1271 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8062: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Subcollina lucretia d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Duashnoceras floresi Burckhardt 1927 ammonite
Duashnoceras paucicostatum Felix 1891 ammonite
Duashnoceras undulatum Burckhardt 1927 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite