Where: Chiapas, Mexico (16.9° N, 92.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 81.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lecheria Limestone Formation (Rio Sabinal Group), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• unit 10
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: S. H. Frost and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1974. Cenozoic Reef Biofacies. Chicago, Northern Illinois University Press 1-388 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85738: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
? Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
"Siderastrea cf. hexagonalis" = Siderastrea conferta
"Siderastrea cf. hexagonalis" = Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
"Paraster sp." = Schizaster (Paraster), Linthia cf. caraibensis
"Paraster sp." = Schizaster (Paraster) Pomel 1869 heart urchin
Linthia cf. caraibensis heart urchin |