Cerro Natucho, Zapotitlan Formation, Puebla (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (18.3° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zapotitlan Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified claystone and lithified limestone

• '... at the end of the Neocomian and during the Aptian, the region of Zapotitlan-San Juan Raya was an area close to the coast, covered with shallow waters '
• 'The San Juan Raya foramtion... consists of a series of lutites, limestones and conglomerates... maximum thickness of 1000 meters.'

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: collected by J. G. Aguilera in the end of the 19th century

Primary reference: G. A. d.e. Cserna. 1956. Pelecipidos y gasteropodos del Cretacico inferior de la region de San Juan Raya-Zapotitlan, Estado de Puebla. Paleontologia Mexicana (2)1-47 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69907: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 09.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Itieriidae
Phaneroptyxis anguillina