Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (24.1° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 51.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Casita Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• late Early to early Late Kimmeridgian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2003
• Found by a shepherd mandated by a local amateur
Primary reference: M.-C. Buchy. 2008. New occurrence of the genus Dakosaurus (Reptilia, Thalattosuchia) in the Upper Jurassic of north-eastern Mexico, with comments upon skull architecture of Dakosaurus and Geosaurus. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 249(1):1-8 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 136131: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 20.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874 plesiosaur UANL-FCT-R8, Fragmentary maxillary and mandibular rostra with teeth; possibly a dorsal vertebra
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