Chumbitaro, MP 17: Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dissocladella cf. savitriae Pia 1936
Filkorn and W. Scott 2011
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Elasmophyllia tolmachoffana (Wells 1932)
recombined as Phacellocoenia tolmachoffana
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae
Latiphyllia mexicana Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidastraeidae
Thalamocaeniopsis mexicanensis Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009
    = Rhipidastraea soukupi Eliasova 1991
Baron-Szabo 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria tonantzinae n. sp. Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea guadalupae (Roemer 1849)
Actinastrea chumbitaroensis n. sp. Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009
synonym of Actinastrea lacvivieri
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Guerrero
Coordinates: 18.5° North, 100.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.4° North, 68.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mal Paso Member:Upper
Local section:Chumbitaro Local bed:17
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Lithology description: 1.2 m thick wackestone unit just below a zone with abundant echinoids
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:89858
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Krause, W. Kiessling
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-17 04:30:08 Last modified:2016-06-27 05:01:04
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-06-17 04:30:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30084. 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]

Secondary references:

30659 R. Baron-Szabo. 2009. Taxonomic opinions on Cretaceous corals. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
59564 H. F. Filkorn and J. Pantoja-Alor. 2015. Mexican Cretaceous coral species (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) described as new by Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor (2009), but deemed ‘unpublished’ under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: republication of data necessary for nomenclatural availability. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1):93-101 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]
47628 H. F. Filkorn and R. W. Scott. 2011. Microfossils, paleoenvironments and biostratigraphy of the Mal Paso Formation (Cretaceous, upper Albian), State of Guerrero, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(1) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]