Where: Nuevo León, Mexico (25.4° N, 100.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 29.8° N, 45.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caseyella aguilerae ammonoid zone, La Peña Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo María del Carmen Perrilliat M., Colección Nacional de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Primary reference: R. Barragán, J. A. Moreno-Bedmar, F. Núñez-Useche, L. F. Álvarez-Sánchez, and G. Delanoy. 2021. Ammonite biostratigraphy of two stratigraphic sections of the La Peña Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) in Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico. Cretaceous Research 125(104862) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220671: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Gargasiceras" adkinsi ammonite | |
Caseyella aguilerae Burckhardt 1925 ammonite |