537A 1981: Carnian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cynepteris sp. Ash 1969
1 specimen
Polypodiopsida - Marattiales
Asterotheca santaclarae
156 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Phlebopteris angustiloba
1 specimen
Bennettitales
? Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
13 specimens
Zamites sp. Brongniart 1828
20 specimens
Zamites fragilis
5 specimens
Zamites ex gr. fragilis
2 specimens
Zamites cf. truncatus Zeiller 1903
5 specimens
Williamsonia sp. Carruthers 1870
1 specimen
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus carolinensis
100 specimens
Elatocladus sp. Halle 1913
1 specimen
Elatocladus ex gr. carolinensis
1 specimen
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Cycadaceae
Ctenophyllum braunianum (Göppert 1844)
94 specimens
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Taeniopteris elegans
9 specimens
unclassified
Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869
16 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 109.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.1° North, 46.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Carnian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic
Key time interval:Carnian
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Barranca Formation:Santa Clara Local bed:537A
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Crucero: Estrato A
Database number:24036
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:D. Sunderlin Research group:paleobotany
Subset of collection #:24092
Created:2002-07-29 08:17:20 Last modified:2002-07-30 11:40:45
Access level:group members Released:2002-07-29 08:17:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6703.PGAP A. Zambrano Garcia and R. Weber. 1985. Nuevo ensayo de un panorama de la paleoecologia de comunidades de la tafoflora Santa Clara (Triasico Tardio, Sonora). III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia. Mexico. Simposio sobre Floras del Triasico Tardio, Su Fitogeografia y Paleoecologia. Memoria 153-163 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/S. Bruning]