Where: Guerrero, Mexico (18.5° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 68.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mal Paso Formation), Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)
• unit MP 18 above a zone with abundant echinoids
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: H. F. Filkorn and J. Pantoja-Alor. 2009. Cretaceous corals from the Huetamo region, Michoacan and Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Boletin 116:1-169 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85295: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Paracycloseris effrenatus n. sp.
Paracycloseris effrenatus n. sp. Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009 stony coral | |
Blastozopsammia guerreroterion n. gen. n. sp.1
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Foraminifera | |
"Rotalipora appenninica" = Globotruncana appenninica2
"Rotalipora appenninica" = Globotruncana appenninica2 Renz 1936 |