Bed 91: Early Berriasian - Middle Berriasian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spirotrichia
Remaniella sp.
Tintinnopsella carpathica
Murgeanu and Filipescu
Tintinnopsella longa
Colom
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Durangites sp.
Durangites rarifurcatus Imlay 1939
Imlay
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Kossmatia sp. Uhlig 1907
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province: San Luis Potosí
Coordinates: 23.6° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.9° North, 53.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Early Berriasian - Middle Berriasian
Age range of interval: 145 - 140.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Caja Member:El Verde
Local section:Los Alamitos 2 Local bed:91
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:condensed lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified silty marl
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Alternating limestones and silty marls, followed by cherty limestones (Beds 69-130)
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: None
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:192495
Authorizer:A. Rojas Enterer:A. Rojas
Created:2018-04-09 12:28:32 Last modified:2018-04-09 12:28:32
Access level:authorizer only Released:2020-04-09 12:28:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65174. F. Olóriz, A. B. Villaseñor, C. Gonzalez-Arreola and G. E. G. Westermann. 1999. Ammonite Biostratigraphy and Correlations in the Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous La Caja Formation of North-Central Mexico (Sierra de Catorce, San Luis de Potosí). In F. Olóriz, F. J. Rodríguez-Tovar (eds.), Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods 550 [A. Rojas/A. Rojas]