Cerro de Oro II (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Reef 2684

Where: Mexico (29.8° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 68.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mural Limestone Formation (Bisbee Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Bioherms up to 10 m thick and 700 m long.

•boundstones of colonial corals, stromatoporoids, rudists and other bivalves.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. C. Baron-Szabo and C.M. González-León. 1999. Lower Cretaceous corals and stratigraphy of the Bisbee Group (Cerro de Oro and Lampazos areas), Sonora, Mexico. Cretaceous Research 20:465-497 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21254: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.06.2002, edited by Mihaela Krause, Madeleine Nimke and Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Aulastraeoporidae
Preverastraea roveretoi1 Prever 1909 stony coral
Preverastraea felixi1 Hackemesser 1936 stony coral
Aulastraeopora sp.1 Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Columactinastraea sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
[entered as Columactinastrea sp.]
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Diploastrea harrisi" = Astraeofungia diversisepta1
"Diploastrea harrisi" = Astraeofungia diversisepta1 Hackemesser 1936 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandrophyllia meandriformis2 Morycowa 1971 stony coral
Meandrophyllia cf. lotharinga2 Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Pseudomyriophyllia carpathica1 Morycowa 1971 stony coral
Eugyra pontica1 stony coral
ssp. hydnophoroides
"Pseudomyriophyllia turnsekae" = Eugyra turnsekae Baron-Szabo 1996 stony coral
"Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra)3 Prever 1909 stony coral
Felixigyra patruliusi Morycowa 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
? Heterocoenia exigua1 Michelin 1846 stony coral
Latusastrea provincialis d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Thamnarea mammelonata" = Dendraraea mammelonata1
"Thamnarea mammelonata" = Dendraraea mammelonata1 Turnsek and Mihajlovic 1981 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Polyastropsis arnaudi" = Thamnoseris arnaudi Alloiteau 1957 stony coral
Latiastraea mucronata Sikharulidze 1979 stony coral
Microphyllia densecostata1 Sikharulidze 1979 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
"Cryptocoenia aff. pygmaea" = Cryptocoenia fontserei4
"Cryptocoenia aff. pygmaea" = Cryptocoenia fontserei4 Bataller 1947 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Pleurostylina major n. sp. Baron-Szabo and González-León 1999 stony coral
Amphiastrea aethiopica Dietrich 1926 stony coral
Keriophyllia roniewiczae n. sp. Baron-Szabo and González-León 1999 stony coral