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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
"Thurmannia thurmanni" = Thurmanniceras thurmanni Pictet and Campiche 1860 ammonite
Kilianella cf. lucensis Sayn 1907 ammonite | |
"Astieria aff. astieri" = Olcostephanus astierianus
"Astieria aff. astieri" = Olcostephanus astierianus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite |