Where: Nuevo Leon, Mexico (26.3° N, 99.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 86.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Indio Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Indio Formation of south Texas, characterised by play or slabby sandstones and thin-bedded sandy shale and clay, is present in Mexico, with an estimated thickness of more than 3000 ft. The Indio Formation shows faunal similarity with the Tuscahoma and Bashi Formations of Alabama. The Indio Formation is subdivided into three members. The collection is derived from the lower member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gardner; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but possibly J. Gardner. REPOSITORY: USNM

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1938. Aturias from the Tertiary of Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 12(2):149-155 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81023: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2008

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