Carbonera Formation, Las Cuevas, Durango (Cretaceous of Mexico)
Where: Durango, Mexico (25.5° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 56.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• middle
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate
• "... few solitary types, which lived scattered on shallow banks or shoals in the Coahuila peninsular area under environmental conditions unsuited to the growth of colonial reef-builders."
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Imlay, Wells in 1940; reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1946. Some Jurassic and Cretaceous corals from Northern Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 20(1):1-7 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 10.12.2007
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Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
"Astrocoenia hispaniensis" = Paretallonia hispaniensis
"Astrocoenia hispaniensis" = Paretallonia hispaniensis Imlay 1940 stony coral | |
Montlivaltia coahuilensis n. sp.
Montlivaltia coahuilensis n. sp. stony coral | |
Placocoenia sp. n. sp.
Placocoenia sp. n. sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |