Aroyo de la Atarjea, coral reef, Mexico: Maastrichtian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Antiguastrea cellulosa
(Duncan 1863)
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abundant category | ||||||
Dictuophyllia conferticostata
(Vaughan 1899)
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abundant category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agatheliidae
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Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
(Duncan 1865)
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abundant category | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea sp.
Drouet 1824
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common category | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Hippurites ? perkinsi
Myers 1968
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rare category | ||||||
synonym of Caribbea muellerriedi | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Biradiolites sp.
d'Orbigny 1850
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Plagioptychidae indet.
Douvillé 1888
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Mexico |
Coordinates: | 22.0° North, 99.6° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 28.3° North, 80.2° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified bafflestone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified packstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Coral-rudist reef. Bafflestone with packstone matrix | |
Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Reef 3327 | ||
Database number: | 38869 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-05-12 07:57:16 | Last modified: | 2004-05-12 11:12:21 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-12 07:57:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10496. | A. Schafhauser, S. Götz, R. Baron-Szabo and W. Stinnesbeck. 2003. Depositional environment of coral-rudist associations in the Upper Cretaceous Cardenas Formation (central Mexico). Geologica Croatica 56(2):187-198 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |