Where: Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico (27.3° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 68.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buda Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Buda Limestone, which overlies the Del Rio Fm (Cenomanian), and is correlative with the Grasyon Fm. AGE: Early Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Loczo et al. REPOSITORY: UT and WSA.
Primary reference: K. Young. 1979. Lower Cenomanian and Late Albian (Cretaceous) ammonites, especially Lyelliceridae, or Texas and Mexico. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 26:1-99 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88768: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Mantelliceras cf. martimpreyi ammonite
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite | |
"Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum
"Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum Shattuck 1903 ammonite |