Loma del Coco, San Juan Raya Formation, Puebla: Aptian, Mexico
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Gastropoda
- Procerithiidae
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rare category |
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| Uchauxia? poblana n.sp. |
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Gastropoda
- Batillariidae
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common category |
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| see common names |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Coordinates: |
18.3° North, 97.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.6° North, 43.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Aptian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 3 |
| Key time interval: | Aptian |
| Age range of interval: | 121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago |
| Primary lithology: | lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: 'The San Juan Raya foramtion... consists basically of calcareous lutites with intercalations of calcareous sandstone... maximum thickness of 1250 meters.' |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: '... during the Aptian, the region of Zapotitlan-San Juan Raya was an area close to the coast, covered with shallow waters ' |
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: collected by J. G. Aguilera in the end of the 19th century |
| Database number: | 69905 |
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan |
Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-09 05:24:21 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2007-03-09 05:24:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 23451. | | G. A. d.e. Cserna. 1956. Pelecipidos y gasteropodos del Cretacico inferior de la region de San Juan Raya-Zapotitlan, Estado de Puebla. Paleontologia Mexicana (2)1-47 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |