Loma La Cuchilla (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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

• block of coral 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
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
"Apocladophyllia nowaki" = Apocladophyllia birleyae
"Apocladophyllia nowaki" = Apocladophyllia birleyae Gregory 1899 stony coral