Tezoatlan Lower (Jurassic of Mexico)

Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.8° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 47.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Rosario Formation), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• covered by the Conglomerado Cualac and the Zorillo Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, silty sandstone and black, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Originally published in Erben, 1956b, p. 21

Primary reference: A. Silva-Pineda. 1978. Paleobotanica del Jurasico de Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Instituto de Geologia, Paleontologia Mexicana 44:1-16 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24724: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 19.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Laccopteris sp. Presl 1838
=phlebopteris
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
"Equisetum rajmahalensis" = Equisetum rajmahalense
"Equisetum rajmahalensis" = Equisetum rajmahalense Oldham and Morris 1863 horsetail
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris sp." = Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825
 Bennettitales -
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
"Noeggerathiopsis hislopii" = Cordaites hislopi
"Noeggerathiopsis hislopii" = Cordaites hislopi Bunbury 1878
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Rhabdocarpos
  -
"Rhabdocarpus sp." = Rhabdocarpos
"Rhabdocarpus sp." = Rhabdocarpos Goeppert and Berger 1848
Trigonocarpus
  -
Trigonocarpus sp. Brongniart 1828
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris sp. Presl 1838
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Stangerites sp. Oldham and Morris 1863 cycads
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae