USGS 13467 - Nuevo Leon, Mexico (upper Jackson Formation) (Eocene of Mexico)

Also known as USGS 13467

Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (25.8° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 91.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Jackson Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• The Jackson Group of Mexico and the Gulf Coastal Plain is here considered as a formation. The Jackson Formation can be subdivided into three members, the basal "Roma Sandstone" and middle and upper members (no lithostratigraphic name). No comments are made on relations to Gulf Coastal Plain units, but the enterer considers that the Jackson Formation of this collection is equivalent in age (late Eocene) as the Jackson Group (Gulf Coastal Plain). Collection is from a concretionary sandstone in the upper member of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; concretionary, brown, gray sandstone

• Siliciclastic. Enterer considers the fauna to be an inner shelf assemblage. No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Concretionary brown and gray sandstone containing poorly preserved mollusca.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections.

Primary reference: J. Gardner. 1945. Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico. Geological Society of American Memoir 11 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43055: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca.
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
"Xancus wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni
"Xancus wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni Conrad 1848 snail