Colonia Jardin (Miocene of Mexico)

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.2° N, 92.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 88.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Finca Carmitto Member (La Quinta Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified sandstone

• biomicrite and interbedd muddy calcareous sandstones

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 85794: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora sp., Antillia heueri n. sp.
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Antillia heueri n. sp. Frost and Langenheim 1974 stony coral