PM3-Eastern Coahuila(MEX) (Cretaceous to of Mexico)
Where: Coahuila, Mexico (27.0° N, 102.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 21.2° N, 41.9° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Unnamed Shales Member, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 139.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray shale and limestone
• brown and grey shales and sandy shales with intercalated beds of brownish-grey, even-bedded limestone ranging up to several feet in thickness; weathers brownish-yellow; a marly bed at the base contains the fossils of the collection
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1940. Neocomian Faunas of Northern Mexico. Geological Society America Bulletin 51(1):117-190 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2150: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 23.06.1999
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Taxonomic list
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| Gastropoda | |
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Vermetus cornejoi Castillo and Aguilera 1895 worm shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra putnami" = Aetostreon subsinuatum, Exogyra reedi
"Exogyra putnami" = Aetostreon subsinuatum Leymerie 1842 oyster
Exogyra reedi Imlay 1937 oyster | |