Soyalo road section: Early/Lower Eocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia cf. caraibensis
Paraster sp. Pomel 1869
spelled with current rank as Schizaster (Paraster)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea cf. hexagonalis Vaughan 1900
synonym of Siderastrea conferta
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
? Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Soritidae
Praerhapydionina vanwessemi
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Rhapydioninidae
Raadshoovenia guatemalensis
Rhapydionina limbata
Elphidiidae
Elphidium nassauensis
unclassified
Storrsella haastersi
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Chiapas
Coordinates: 16.9° North, 92.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.8° North, 81.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rio Sabinal Formation:Lecheria Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unit 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: biomicrite and mud-supported oolitic and pelletoidal biosparite
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85738
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2009-01-14 06:36:46 Last modified:2009-01-14 08:36:46
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
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]