Rio Salinas, Tinu, Tu-2.05: Sunwaptan, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
? Eoscaphelasma sp. Koneva et al. 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Oaxaca
Coordinates: 17.4° North, 97.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.0° South, 108.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 5
Key time interval:Sunwaptan
Age range of interval:493.00000 - 487.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tinu Member:Yudachica
Local section:Rio Salinas Local bed:2.05 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Furongian stage 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Lithology description: carbonate horizon (mainly wacke- to grainstone) in the lower part of the 12-13 m thick shale-carbonate Yudachica Member
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: shallow subtidal, wave-dominated, slightly dysoxic facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:106255
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-04 21:15:26 Last modified:2011-03-04 04:15:26
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-04 21:15:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35409. M. Streng, B. B. Mellbin, E. Landing and J. D. Keppie. 2011. Linguliform brachiopods from the terminal Cambrian and lowest Ordovician of the Oaxaquia Microcontinent (southern Mexico). Journal of Paleontology 85(1):122-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]