Mesa de Santa Cruz [Escondido beds] (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (25.0° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Escondido Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Escondido beds, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discused. AGE: Early Maastrichtian; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of the Escondido bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Bose; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably E. Böse. REPOSITORY: University of California, Berkeley.

Primary reference: E. Böse. 1928. Cretaceous ammonites from Texas and northern Mexico. University of Texas Bulletin 2748:143-357 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88239: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Probably not exhaustive, but comprehensive for ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Coahuilites cavinsi
Coahuilites cavinsi Böse 1928 ammonite