IGM 3870, Belisario Dominguez Quarry: Danian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Anguilliformes
Anguilliformes indet. Greenwood et al. 1966
Alvarado-Ortega et al. 2015 4 specimens
Actinopteri
Kelemejtubus castroi n. gen., n. sp. Cantalice and Alvarado-Ortega 2017
5 specimens
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
Alvarado-Ortega et al. 2015 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Chiapas
Coordinates: 17.4° North, 92.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.6° North, 75.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tenejapa-Lacandon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Lithology description: bedding planes composed of flat and yellow-cream-colored marls, with fine and parallel stratification
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190738
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-15 23:18:29 Last modified:2017-12-15 23:44:30
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-15 23:18:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64111. K. M. Cantalice and J. Alvarado-Ortega. 2017. Kelemejtubus castroi, gen. et sp. nov., an ancient percomorph (Teleostei, Actinopterygii) from the Paleocene marine deposits near Palenque, Chiapas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1383265)1-12 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

64112 J. Alvarado-Ortega, M. Cuevas-García, M. P. Melgarejo-Damián, K. M. Cantalice, A. Alaniz-Galvan, G. Solano-Templos, and B. A. Than-Marchese. 2015. Paleocene fishes from Palenque, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. Palaeontologia Electronica (18.2.39A)1-22 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]