Tajo el Nogalito (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (27.9° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 76.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Olmos Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. Estrada-Ruiz, G. R. Upchurch Jr., J.A. Wolfe and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 2011. Comparative Morphology of Fossil and Extant Leaves of Nelumbonaceae, Including a New Genus from the Late Cretaceous of Western North America. Systematic Botany 36(2):337-351 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116357: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 07.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Exnelumbites callejasiae n. gen. n. sp.
Exnelumbites callejasiae n. gen. n. sp. Estrada-Ruiz et al. 2011 lotus