Soyalo road section (Eocene of Mexico)

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

• biomicrite and mud-supported oolitic and pelletoidal biosparite

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
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 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Rhapydioninidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
? Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Siderastrea cf. hexagonalis" = Siderastrea conferta
"Siderastrea cf. hexagonalis" = Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
"Paraster sp." = Schizaster (Paraster) Pomel 1869 heart urchin