La Huasteca Canyon, bed LHC49 (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Nuevo León, Mexico (25.6° N, 100.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.0° N, 45.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kazanskyella minima ammonoid zone, La Peña Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous 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 220697: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Epicheloniceras sp. Casey 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Colombiceras sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Caseyella aguilerae Burckhardt 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
Kazanskyella minima Scott 1940 ammonite