Taninul, rudist reef (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

Also known as Reef 1178

Where: Mexico (22.0° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 63.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Abra Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• and packstones and wackestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. S. Collins. 1988. The faunal structure of a Mid-Cretaceous rudist reef core. Lethaia 21:271-280 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74181: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet.
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Hippuritida - Caprinuloideidae
Texicaprina sp., ? Caprinuloidea sp., Mexicaprina minuta, Mexicaprina cornuta
Texicaprina sp. Coogan 1973 rudist
? Caprinuloidea sp. Palmer 1928 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites sp., Sauvagesia texana, Eoradiolites davidsoni
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet.
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843