Also known as Reef 1788

Where: Mexico (30.3° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 102.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: unit 3 Member (Puerto Blanco Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• lower part of unit 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• skeletal debris along the external parts of the buildup consists of fragments of trilobites, hyoliths, archaeocyaths, brachiopods, Chancelloria spicules and rare echinoderm plates

Primary reference: F. Debrenne, A. Gandin, and S. M. Rowland. 1989. Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths. Géobios 22(2):137-195 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62868: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.07.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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