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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Romaniceras santaanaense" = Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum
"Romaniceras santaanaense" = Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum Jones 1938 ammonite |