Cerros de la Proveedora, Buildup of Buelna Formation, Caborca (Cambrian of Mexico)

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

• probably formed subtidally above storm wavebase
• cryptalgal boundstones and oncoidal wackestone-packstone and ooid grainstone

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

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Taxonomic list

Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Claruscoscinidae
Claruscoscinus sp. Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus sp. Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932