Arroyo Las Bocas: Turonian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
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Lamniformes indet.
Berg 1958
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Actinopteri
- Tselfatiiformes
- Plethodidae
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Dercetidae
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Dercetidae indet.
Cope
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Guerrero |
| Coordinates: | 18.6° North, 99.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.9° North, 62.4° West (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | Inoceramid zone: | Inoceramus labiatus |
| Age range of interval: | 93.9 - 89.8 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 93.9 to 91.85 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mexcala |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous packstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 232103 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Díaz-Cruz | Enterer: | J. Díaz-Cruz |
| Modifier: | J. Díaz-Cruz | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2023-10-22 21:44:04 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2023-10-22 21:44:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 86148. | fossil record | J. Alvarado-Ortega, L., M. Garibay-Romero, A. Blanco-Piñón, G. González-Barba, F., J. Vega, and E. Centeno-García. 2006. Los peces fósiles del formación Mexcala (Cretácico superior) en el Estado de Guerrero, México. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 9(3):261-272 [J. Díaz-Cruz/J. Díaz-Cruz] |