Coixtlahuaca I (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.7° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 61.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• presumably Aptian-Cenomanian

Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone

• Es una caliza de color crema a gris claro, que intemperiza a gris perla, fosilífera, con estratificación media, gruesa a masiva y forma grandes pliegues de rumbo general NE-SW.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ing. Jorge Gonzáles-Alvarado in 1969-1975

Primary reference: M. M. Reyeros de Castillo. 1983. Corales de algunas formaciones cretacicas del Estado de Oaxaca. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Paleontologia Mexicana (47)1-67 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79450: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 10.03.2008, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Dimorphastraeopsis bohemica
Dimorphastraeopsis bohemica Eliasova 1989 stony coral