Tlaxiaco: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Ataxioceras (Ataxioceras) lopeztichae n. sp. Cantu-Chapa 1991
recombined as Schneidia lopeztichai
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Oaxaca
Coordinates: 17.3° North, 97.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.9° North, 50.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Age is uncertain because the specimen occurred alone, but a latest Platynota to earliest Hypselocyclum age is promoted.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: collection of Cantú-Chapa
Metadata
Database number:180139
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-09 11:12:59 Last modified:2016-07-09 11:12:59
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-09 11:12:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59799. L. Moliner, F. Olóriz, and A. B. Villaseñor. 2016. Ataxioceras (Ataxioceras) lopeztichae Cantú-Chapa, 1991: updating the systematic and palaeobiogeographic interpretation. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(2.19A):1-16 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]