IGM-2573, Los Ahuehuetes locality (Oligocene of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.6° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 92.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coatzingo Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Pie de Vaca Formation in older paleobotany papers, but Cifuentes-Ruiz et al. (2007) assign it to the Coatzingo Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• The sedimentary sequence is formed by horizons of volcanic ash, shale, and fine-grained sandstone, representing a lacustrine, or low-energy fluvial environment.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Repository: Colección Nacional de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, under IGM numbers for type specimens collection, and in the Colección Paleontológica de la Escuela Regional de Ciencias de La Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, under acronym ERCT.

Primary reference: J. L. Ramírez and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 2002. A diverse assemblage of Anacardiaceae from Oligocene sediments, Tepexi de Rodriguez, Puebla, Mexico. American Journal of Botany 89:535-545 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31519: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Monica Arakaki on 14.05.2003, edited by Hongshan Wang and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scorpionida
 Scorpionida -
Scorpionida indet. scorpion
ERCT-1570 (Vaejovidae in Santiago-Blay et al., 2001)
Insecta
 Plecoptera - Perlidae
Euperlida parvicercifera n. gen. n. sp.
Euperlida parvicercifera n. gen. n. sp. Cifuentes-Ruiz 2007 common stonefly
IGM-6628
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
IGM-6629, 6672
Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Pistacia marquezii n. sp. Ramírez and Cevallos-Ferriz 2002 cashew
Comocladia intermedia n. sp. Ramírez and Cevallos-Ferriz 2002 maidenplum
Haplorhus medranoensis n. sp. Ramírez and Cevallos-Ferriz 2002 cashew
Rhus sp. Linnaeus 1753 sumac
Rhus toxicodendroides n. sp. Ramírez and Cevallos-Ferriz 2002 sumac