Cantera de Guadalcazar I (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: San Luis Potosi, Mexico (22.6° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temazcal Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified rudstone

• low to higher energy shallow platform environments
• medium- to massive-bedded wackestone to rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Pons, E. Vicens, Y. Pichardo, J. Aguilar, A. Oviedo, G. Alencaster, and P. Garcia-Barrera. 2010. A new Early Campanian rudist fauna from San Luis Potosi in Mexico and its taxonomic stratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology 84(5):974-995 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet., Potosites tristantorresi
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Potosites tristantorresi Pons et al. 2010 rudist
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
? Antillocaprinidae indet.
? Antillocaprinidae indet. MacGillavry 1937 rudist