Where: Michoacan, Mexico (18.6° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 56.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (San Lucas Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• upper part of the lower member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone
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 89852: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Apocladophyllia nowaki" = Apocladophyllia birleyae
"Apocladophyllia nowaki" = Apocladophyllia birleyae Gregory 1899 stony coral |