Sierra Santa Rosa, Section 4: Sinemurian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Falcimytilus sp. Cox 1937
Modiolus cf. baylei
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium disciforme (Schubler 1833)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha neuquena Leanza 1940
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya cf. striata
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Platymyoidea indet. Cox 1964
originally entered as "Platymyoidea sp."
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya cf. fidicula Sowerby 1826
recombined as Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula
Pholadomya cf. ambigua (Sowerby 1819)
? Pachymya sp. Sowerby 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 30.7° North, 112.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.6° North, 55.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sierra Santa Rosa Member:Middle
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian?
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology: calcareous sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40177
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-19 08:05:25 Last modified:2004-06-19 11:05:25
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-19 08:05:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10581. S. E. Damborenea and C. M. González-León. 1997. Late Triassic and Early Jurassic bivalves from Sonora, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 14(2):178-201 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]