Mx1: Barranco de la Bolita (Level 9): Bajocian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Duashnoceras paucicostatum (Felix 1891)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia sp. Crickmay 1930
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Indotrigonia sp. Dietrich 1933
spelled with current rank as Trigonia (Indotrigonia)
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Oaxaca
Coordinates: 16.8° North, 97.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.1° North, 47.2° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
*Period:Middle Jurassic *Epoch:Dogger
Key time interval:Bajocian
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Taberna
Local section:Mx1 Local bed:9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,gray,yellow lithified calcareous "shale"
Lithology description: yellowish-gray shale, with scarce calcareous concretions.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8060
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-15 14:30:27 Last modified:2000-06-15 17:30:27
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

539. J. Sandoval and G. E. G. Westermann. 1986. The Bajocian (Jurassic) ammonite fauna of Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 60(6):1220-1271 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/O. Alfaro]