La Casita Formation
The La Casita Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Kimmeridgian to lowermost Berriasian.[1][2] It is laterally equivalent to the La Caja Formation[3] and the Pimienta Formation. The ichthyosaur Acuetzpalin is known from the formation,[4] as well as the metriorhynchid Dakosaurus[5] and indeterminate pliosaurs.[6]
| La Casita Formation Stratigraphic range: Kimmeridgian–Berriasian | |
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| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | Taraises Formation |
| Overlies | Zuloaga Formation |
| Thickness | Around 60 metres |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Siltstone |
| Other | Shale |
| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
References
- Zell, P., Stinnesbeck, W. (2016). "Salinites grossicostatum (Imlay, 1939) and S. finicostatum sp. nov. from the latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of northeastern Mexico". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 68 (2): 305–311. doi:10.18268/BSGM2016v68n2a8.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Ocampo-Díaz., Yam Zul Ernesto (2014). "Procedencia de la Formación La Casita y la Arcosa Patula: implicaciones para la evolución tectono-magmática del NE de México entre el Carbonífero y el Jurásico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 31: 45–63.
- Zell, Patrick; Beckmann, Seija; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang (2013-12-01). "Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous belemnites (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from northeastern Mexico and their palaeobiogeographic implications". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 270 (3): 325–341. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0374. ISSN 0077-7749.
- Barrientos-Lara, Jair Israel; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (March 2020). "Acuetzpalin carranzai gen et sp. nov. A new ophthalmosauridae (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Durango, North Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 98: 102456. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102456.
- M.-C. Buchy, W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey and A. H. Gonzalez Gonzalez. 2007. Première mention du genre Dakosaurus (Crocodyliformes, Thalattosuchia) dans le Jurassique supérieur du Mexique. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 178(5):391-397
- M.-C. Buchy, E. Frey, W. Stinnesback and J. G. Lopez-Oliva. 2006. An annotated catalogue of the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian) marine reptiles in the collections of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Linares, Mexico. Oryctos 6:1-18
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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