Also known as Reef 3466
Where: Mexico (30.7° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 98.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Buelna Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)
• probably Toyonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• trilobites and echinoderms reported to be present, but not listed
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. GĂ©obios 22(2):137-195 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62870: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Claruscoscinus sp. Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge | |
Archaeocyathus sp. Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920 |