Loma de San Juan, loose debris (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Michoacan, Mexico (18.5° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° N, 56.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cumburindio Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• volcaniclastic beds between the lower and upper limestone beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified volcaniclastic sediments

• corals as loose debris scattered in the gray, medium-bedded, moderately well sorted, medium- and coarse-grained volcaniclastics

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. F. Filkorn and J. Pantoja-Alor. 2009. Cretaceous corals from the Huetamo region, Michoacan and Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Boletin 116:1-169 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89844: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderofungia irregularis Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
"Meandrophyllia sauteri" = Meandrophyllia steini
"Meandrophyllia sauteri" = Meandrophyllia steini Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea whitneyi Wells 1932 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Comoseriidae
Polyphylloseris conophora Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena guttata Koby 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Felixastraea mexicana" = Loboseris mexicana, Fungiastraea crespoi
"Felixastraea mexicana" = Loboseris mexicana Reyeros-Navarro 1963 stony coral
Fungiastraea crespoi Felix 1891 stony coral