79-10 Arroyo Chamina: Carnian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pteropsida
Alethopteris whitneyi Newberry 1876
5 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Phyllothecaceae
Phyllothecaceae indet.
5 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida - Marattiales
Asterotheca sp. Presl 1845
5 %-specimens
Polypodiopsida
? Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
5 %-specimens
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Taeniopteris elegans
5 %-specimens
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Cycadaceae
Ctenophyllum braunianum (Göppert 1844)
5 %-specimens
unclassified
Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869
25 %-specimens
Cordaitales
Pelourdea sp. Seward 1917
5 %-specimens
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus spp.
10 %-specimens
Coniferales
Desmiophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1878
5 %-specimens
Bennettitales
Zamites fragilis
10 %-specimens
Zamites cf. truncatus Zeiller 1903
5 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 110.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° North, 47.2° 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:79-10
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:24069
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:D. Sunderlin Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-07-29 11:59:22 Last modified:2002-07-30 12:03:59
Access level:group members Released:2002-07-29 11:59:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6811.PGAP R. Weber, R. Trjo-Cruz, A. Tores-Romo and A. Garcia-Padilla. 1980. Hipotesis de trabajo acerca de la paleoecologia de comunidades de la tafoflora Santa Clara del Triasico Tardio de Sonora. Univ. Nal. Auton. Mexico, Inst. Geologia, Revista 4(2):138-154 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]