Chumbitaro, MP 9 (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

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

• back-reef
• above an oyster-rich rudstone bed

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
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten roemeri" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus Orbigny 1847 scallop
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Aulastraeoporidae
Preverastraea tocae Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009 stony coral
Preverastraea coatlicuae Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009 stony coral
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae