Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 89.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Quinta Formation (Simojovel Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• equivalent to the upper Camino Carretero-lower Finca Carmitto member interval
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 85785: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montastrea tampaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata, "Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi, "Antillia bullbrooki" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi Vaughan 1926 stony coral
"Antillia bullbrooki" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi Vaughan 1926 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Pavona trinitatis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral | |
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Gardineria simojovelensis n. sp.
Gardineria simojovelensis n. sp. Frost and Langenheim 1974 stony coral | |
"Dominicotrochus dominicensis" = Platytrochus dominicensis
"Dominicotrochus dominicensis" = Platytrochus dominicensis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral |