Sierra de Parras (La Casita type section locality) (Jurassic to of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (27.0° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 51.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Casita Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V.-H. Reynoso. 2006. Research on fossil amphibians and reptiles in Mexico, from 1869 to early 2004 (including marine forms but excluding pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and obviously, birds). In F. J. Vega, T. G. Nyborg, M. Del Carmen Perrilliat, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, S. A. Quiroz-Barroso (eds.), Studies on Mexican Paleontology 24:209-231 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144332: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 03.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur
Some vertebrae and plates