Also known as Tlayua Quarry, Tepexi de Rodrìguez
Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.6° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 63.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tlayúa Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)
• Middle Member. Cantu-Chapa (1987) recognized the genus Hysteroceras, Mortoniceras, and cf. Anisoceras, which represent a typical late Albian ammonite assemblage of the European zone, being similar to the Mortoniceras inflatum zone (Applegate et al., 2006).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, brown, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Paleontological Museum of the Instituto de Geologia, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico (IGM UNAM)
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, F. J. Vega, S. P. Applegate and G. A. Bishop. 1998. Early Cretaceous Arthropods from the Tlayua Formation at Tepexi de Rodriguez, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(1):79-90 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138747: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 26.01.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Tepexicarcinus tlayuensis Feldmann et al. 1998 crab | |
Archaeoniscus aranguthyorum Feldmann et al. 1998 isopod | |
Holothuroidea | |
Parapsolus tlayuensis n. gen. n. sp.4
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Osteichthyes | |
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Actinopteri | |
Tepexichthys aranguthyorum3 Applegate 1992 | |
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