San Jose de las Rusias: Late/Upper Oligocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Maeandra dumblei n. sp. Vaughan 1919
recombined as Diploria dumblei
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea cellulosa (Duncan 1863)
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Tamaulipas
Coordinates: 23.6° North, 98.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.3° North, 93.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:San Fernando
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: aka San Fernando Formation; was San Rafael.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:124699
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-02-21 19:54:50 Last modified:2023-01-10 22:31:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-02-21 19:54:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12754. T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]