523 1981: Carnian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bennettitales
Cycadolepis aff. wettsteini
1 specimen
Zamites fragilis
1 specimen
Zamites aff. powelli Fontaine 1890
93 specimens
Zamites cf. truncatus Zeiller 1903
14 specimens
unclassified
Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869
86 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Phyllothecaceae
? Phyllotheca sp. Brongniart 1828
28 specimens
Polypodiopsida
? Cladophlebis spp.
4 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Marattiales
Asterotheca santaclarae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 109.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.3° North, 46.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Carnian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic
Key time interval:Carnian
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Barranca Formation:Santa Clara Local bed:523
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Unidad 28 (LB 5)
Database number:24010
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:D. Sunderlin Research group:paleobotany
Subset of collection #:24092
Created:2002-07-26 08:46:12 Last modified:2002-07-30 11:30:31
Access level:group members Released:2002-07-26 08:46:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6703.PGAP A. Zambrano Garcia and R. Weber. 1985. Nuevo ensayo de un panorama de la paleoecologia de comunidades de la tafoflora Santa Clara (Triasico Tardio, Sonora). III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia. Mexico. Simposio sobre Floras del Triasico Tardio, Su Fitogeografia y Paleoecologia. Memoria 153-163 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/S. Bruning]