Simojovel area B-8468 (Miocene of Mexico)

Where: Chiapas, Mexico (17.1° N, 92.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 89.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Quinta Formation (Simojovel Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• top of Florida Limestone Member or Finca Carmitto Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone

• coralline algal-Porites banks in relatively quiet-water conditions

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 85795: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris, Porites trinitatis
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites trinitatis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia mexicanum
Colpophyllia mexicanum Frost and Langenheim 1974 stony coral