La Ballena (Triassic of Mexico)

Where: Zacatecas, Mexico (22.5° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 43.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; sandstone and siltstone

• "turbiditic" (Gómez-Luna et al. 1998)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Gómez-Luna, E. Cedillo-Pardo, B. Contreras Montero, I. Gallo-Padilla, and A. Martínez-Cortés. 1998. Un nuevo perfil del Ladiniano-Cárnico Inferior con fauna de amonoideos en La Ballena, Zacatecas, México. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 15(1):38-45 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216482: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Meginoceras sp.
Meginoceras sp. McLearn 1930 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Clionitidae
Clionitites sp.
Clionitites sp. Strand 1929 ceratite