Hacienda de los Nogales, Cañon de Santa Catarina (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (25.7° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 53.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed unit, immediately above Berriasian limestone, and overlain by Hauterivian-Barremian limestones. THICKNESS: From beds within a 150 m thickness of strata. AGE: Valanginian based on ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within lithostratigraphic unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, pyritic, sideritic, yellow limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not provided in text, assumed to be carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thin bedded limestone with pyritized fossils within gray marls, weathering yellowish. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies, taphonomy and age.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Presumably Böse and Cavins. REPOSITORY: Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin.

Primary reference: E. Böse and O.A. Cavins. 1927. The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico. University of Texas Bulletin 2748:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65622: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Appears to only contain ammonoidea, although some bivalvia and echinoidea are listed elsewhere in text for different collections. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat outdated nomenclature although author consistently used species level designations.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
"Thurmannia thurmanni" = Thurmanniceras thurmanni Pictet and Campiche 1860 ammonite
Kilianella cf. lucensis Sayn 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
"Astieria aff. astieri" = Olcostephanus astierianus
"Astieria aff. astieri" = Olcostephanus astierianus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite