Tecomazuchil Formation
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| name = Tecomazuchil Formation
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| type = Geological Formation
| age = {{fossilrange|Callovian}}
| period = Callovian
| prilithology = Silty Sandstone{{cite web|title=3 Ayuquililla (Jurassic of Mexico)|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=24679|website=FossilWorks|access-date=17 December 2021}}
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| namedby = * Rafael Pérez-Ibarguengoitia
- Antonio Hokuto-Castillo
- Alencaster de Cserna
| region = Puebla Province
| country = Mexico
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| underlies = Chimeco Limestone
| overlies = Acatlán Complex
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The Tecomazuchil Formation is a geologic formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is made up of "a basal conglomerate 135 m thick and predominantly composed of quartz and metamorphic rock fragments, overlain by about 600 m of interbedded tan to red conglomerates, sandstones, and siltstones. The Tecomazuchil Formation overlies unconformably the Acatlán Complex and has been assigned a Middle Jurassic age, though it could represent at least part of the Oxfordian."{{cite book|last1=Westermann|first1=Gerd E. G.|title=The Jurassic of the Circum-Pacific|date=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521019923|page=100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMus4MtzIl4C&q=Tecomazuchil+Formation&pg=PA100|accessdate=5 April 2017}} Fossil Bennettitales have been found in the formation.{{Cite journal|date=2021-06-01|title=Weltrichia xochitetlii sp. nov. (Bennettitales) from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern oaxaca, Mexico: First paleobotanical evidence from the Tecomazúchil Formation|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981121000778|journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences|language=en|volume=108|pages=103230|doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103230|issn=0895-9811|last1=Lozano-Carmona |first1=Diego E. |last2=Corro-Ortiz |first2=Marcos Germán |last3=Morales |first3=René Luis |last4=Velasco-De León |first4=María Patricia |s2cid=234085434 |url-access=subscription}}
See also
{{Portal|Earth sciences|Mexico|Paleontology}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.fossilworks.org "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database"]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=K2an9yd2aq4C&dq=%22Tecomazuchil%22+formation&pg=PA379 "Mesozoic Sedimentary and Tectonic History of North-central Mexico", Issue 340]
- [http://www.geociencias.unam.mx/~hboehnel/JSAMES1999.pdf Paleomagnetic study of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks from the Mixteca terrane (Mexico)]
- [http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/158116515?q&versionId=172356649 A new species of Weltrichia (Bennettitales) from the Middle Jurassic of the Tecomazuchil Formation (Oaxaca, Mexico)]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990PEPI...64..237F Magnetostratigraphy of a Middle Jurassic red bed sequence from southern Mexico]
Category:Jurassic System of North America
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