Cañon de San Nicolas (second locality) [Clansayes horizon]: Early/Lower Albian, Mexico
collected by Bose

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Hamulinidae
Hamulina sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894
Douvilleiceras bigoureti
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Acanthoplites sp. (Sinzow 1908)
original and current combination Acanthohoplites
Acanthoplites aff. janneli
original and current combination Acanthohoplites
Parahoplites aschiltaensis Anthula 1899
recombined as Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842
synonym of Crioceratites
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Uhligella zurcheri
Uhligella sp.
Puzosia matheroni (d'Orbigny 1840)
recombined as Pseudohaploceras matheroni
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Parahoplites aff. milletianus
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites sp.
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus cf. anglicus Woods 1911
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Chihuahua
Coordinates: 27.2° North, 100.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.6° North, 59.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clansayes
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Clansayes horizon (or correlative of), for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discused. AGE: Albian; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,red,yellow lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thin bedded, yellowish to reddish and gray colored limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collectors:Bose
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably E. Böse. REPOSITORY: University of California, Berkeley.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Probably not exhaustive, but comprehensive for ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:88250
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-04 23:39:43 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-04 23:39:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18877. E. Böse and O.A. Cavins. 1927. The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico. University of Texas Bulletin 2748:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]