Pueblo Nuevo reef, Chiapas, Mexico: Chattian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Diploastraeidae
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Diploastrea crassolamellata
(Duncan 1863)
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Stylophora lindavistae n. sp.
Frost and Langenheim 1974
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rare category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora panamensis
Vaughan 1919
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Alveopora chiapanecae n. sp.
Frost and Langenheim 1974
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common category | |||||||||
| nodular | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea conferta
(Duncan 1863)
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rare category | |||||||||
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Pironastrea cf. antiguensis
Vaughan 1919
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very rare category | |||||||||
| on seaward slope | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinacididae
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Porites anguillensis
Vaughan 1919
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rare category | |||||||||
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= Actinacis barretti
Wells 1934
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Baron-Szabo 2008 | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Goniopora cascadensis
Vaughan 1919
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rare category | |||||||||
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= Goniopora reussiana
Duncan 1865
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Baron-Szabo 2008 | |||||||||
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Goniopora hilli
Vaughan 1919
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rare category | |||||||||
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Porites (Synaraea) ? macdonaldi
(Vaughan 1919)
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very rare category | |||||||||
| original and current combination Porites macdonaldi | ||||||||||
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Porites panamensis
Vaughan 1919
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abundant category | |||||||||
| synonym of Porites waylandi | ||||||||||
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Porites douvillei
Vaughan 1919
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rare category | |||||||||
| more common on seaward slope and in back reef | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Leptoseris cf. portoricensis
Vaughan 1919
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very rare category | |||||||||
| on seaward slope | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agathiphylliidae
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Agathiphyllia hilli
(Vaughan 1919)
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common category | |||||||||
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Agathiphyllia antiguensis
(Duncan 1863)
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rare category | |||||||||
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Agathiphyllia anguillensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea bainbridgensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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common category | |||||||||
| synonym of Montastraea endothecata | ||||||||||
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Montastrea gabbi
(Vaughan 1919)
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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Meandrina antiguensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Favites polygonalis
(Duncan 1863)
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common category | |||||||||
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Goniastrea canalis
Vaughan 1919
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rare category | |||||||||
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Antiguastrea cellulosa
(Duncan 1863)
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Colpophyllia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Colpophyllia willoughbiensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Mycetophyllia bullbrooki
Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Turbinaria durhami n. sp.
Frost and Langenheim 1974
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very rare category | |||||||||
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
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? Archaeolithothamnium sp.
Rothpletz 1891
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common category | |||||||||
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Florideophyceae
- Hapalidiales
- Lithothamniacae
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? Lithothamnium sp.
Philippi
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common category | |||||||||
| replaced by Lithothamnion | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Chiapas |
| Coordinates: | 17.1° North, 92.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.7° North, 88.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | La Quinta | Member: | Camino Carretero |
| Local section: | Pueblo Nuevo | Local bed: | 9 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified framestone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Massive wave-resistant reef, 36 m thick | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 2881 | ||
| Database number: | 31271 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling, U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-04-29 02:14:37 | Last modified: | 2003-04-29 05:14:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-04-29 02:14:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8422. | S. H. Frost and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1974. Cenozoic Reef Biofacies. Chicago, Northern Illinois University Press 1-388 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 29068 | R. Baron-Szabo. 2008. Corals of the KT-boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina. Zootaxa 1952:1-244 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |