TU 1080 - Méndez (Oligocene of Mexico)

Where: Tamaulipas, Mexico (25.1° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 93.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Oligocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coralliferous limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92574: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus incrassatus Gabb 1873 clam