Also known as Reef 2659

Where: New Mexico (35.5° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Hill Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, argillaceous, silty bafflestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical

• Study focuses on one ahermatypic coral

Primary reference: A. G. Coates and E.G. Kauffman. 1973. Stratigraphy, paleontology and paleoenvrionment of a Cretaceous coral thicket, Lamy, New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 47(5):953-968 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23527: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 16.07.2002

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