Also known as API-2
Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.6° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 50.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ixaltepec Formation, Morrowan to Morrowan (323.2 - 306.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. A. Quiroz-Barroso and M. Del Carmen Perrilliat. 1998. Pennsylvanian bivalves from the Ixaltepec formation, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(6):1011-1024 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43452: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 13.08.2004, edited by Pedro Monarrez
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
Limipecten cf. texanus Girty 1904 scallop | |
Euchondria cf. levicula Newell 1938 scallop | |
"Myalinella mieeki" = Myalina (Myalinella)
"Myalinella mieeki" = Myalina (Myalinella) clam | |
Ectogrammysia prolata Hoare 1993 clam | |
Astartella concentrica Conrad 1842 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
| |
| |
| |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |