Aroyo de la Atarjea, rudist-coral reef, Mexico: Maastrichtian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Cladocora gracilis
(d'Orbigny 1850)
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Dictuophyllia conferticostata
(Vaughan 1899)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Placocoeniidae
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Placocoenia major
Felix 1903
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agatheliidae
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Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
(Duncan 1865)
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abundant category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinacididae
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Actinacis parvistella
Oppenheim 1930
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common category | ||||||
| synonym of Actinacis martiniana | |||||||
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Actinacis haueri
Reuss 1854
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Actinhelia elegans
(Goldfuss 1826)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea adkinsi
(Wells 1934)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Brachyphylliidae
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Dermosmiliopsis orbignyi
Alloiteau 1952
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Hippurites muellerriedi
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Hippurites ceibarum
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rare category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Coralliochama gboehmi
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Bournonia cardenasensis
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Tampsia floriformis
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common category | ||||||
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Biradiolites sp.
d'Orbigny 1850
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea sp.
Drouet 1824
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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 framestone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified rudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Mixed Coral-rudist reef. Corals and rudists often in growth position. Reef sediment with rudstones, packstones and wackestones with unsorted, angular fragments of rudists, corals, gastropds and non-rudist bivalves. | |
| 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 3328 | ||
| Database number: | 38870 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-12 08:03:45 | Last modified: | 2004-05-12 11:03:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-12 08:03:45 |
| 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] |