Where: Guerrero, Mexico (18.5° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 68.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mal Paso Formation), Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
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 89855: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.06.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten roemeri" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus
"Pecten roemeri" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus Orbigny 1847 scallop | |
Radiolites cf. costata rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Preverastraea tocae Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009 stony coral
Preverastraea coatlicuae Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009 stony coral | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Dissocladella cf. savitriae Pia 1936 |