Sepultura Formation, Mesa San Carlos (Paleocene of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (29.8° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 96.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sepultura Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shale and sandstone

• interbedded fine grained, thinly bedded, micaceous sandstones and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. C. Perrilliat. 2013. Late Paleocene Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Baja California, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 30(1):178-185 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170996: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria "sp. 1" Lamarck 1799 snail
Cancellaria "sp. 2" Lamarck 1799 snail
Cancellaria paleocenica Perrilliat and Cristin 2016 snail
Cancellaria bajaensis Perrilliat and Cristin 2016 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica "sp. 1" Röding 1798 sundial
Architectonica "sp. 2" Röding 1798 sundial
Architectonica bieleri Perrilliat 2013 sundial
Architectonica bajaensis Perrilliat 2013 sundial
Pseudomalaxis sp. Fischer 1850 snail
Granosolarium sp. Sacco 1892 snail