Loc. K-18-35, Ojo de Agua [Indidura Fm] (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico (29.3° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 69.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Indidura Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Indidura Fm, which overlies the Aurora Limestone. AGE: Middle Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: In float along the outcrop unassociated with any designated fossil bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thin-bedded, platy, rubbly, and marly gray limestone, weathered buff color. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Kellum in 1935; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: L. B. Kellum, 1935. REPOSITORY: UMMP.

Primary reference: L. B. Kellum and W. I. Robinson. 1963. Geology of the west-central part of the Sierra de Tlahualilo, Coahuila, Mexico. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Art, and Letters 48:223-261 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88676: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for a range of macroinvertebrates. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Romaniceras santaanaense" = Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum
"Romaniceras santaanaense" = Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum Jones 1938 ammonite