Sierra del Alamo, Unit 10: Hettangian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Badouxia mexicana
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 112.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.4° North, 55.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian Ammonoid zone: Canadensis
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Antimonio
Stratigraphy comments: ~10 m from the basis of the section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:201179
Authorizer:J. Pálfy Enterer:E. Kovács
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-05-02 10:21:18 Last modified:2019-05-02 10:21:18
Access level:authorizer only Released:2021-05-02 10:21:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

68915. D. Taylor, J. Guex, and M. Rakus. 2001. Hettangian and Sinemurian ammonoid zonation for the western Cordillera of North America. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 87(4):381-421 [J. Pálfy/E. Kovács]