Also known as Reef 3328
Where: Mexico (22.0° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Cardenas Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Probably middle/late Maastrichtian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: A. Schafhauser, S. Götz, R. Baron-Szabo and W. Stinnesbeck. 2003. Depositional environment of coral-rudist associations in the Upper Cretaceous Cardenas Formation (central Mexico). Geologica Croatica 56(2):187-198 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 38870: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 12.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Hippurites muellerriedi rudist
Hippurites ceibarum rudist | |
Coralliochama gboehmi rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Siderastrea adkinsi Wells 1934 stony coral | |
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Actinacis parvistella" = Actinacis martiniana d’Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Actinacis haueri Reuss 1854 stony coral | |
Dermosmiliopsis orbignyi Alloiteau 1952 stony coral | |
Dictuophyllia conferticostata Vaughan 1899 stony coral
Cladocora gracilis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral | |
Placocoenia major Felix 1903 stony coral | |
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral |