Colonia Jardin: Early/Lower Miocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834
Antillia heueri n. sp. Frost and Langenheim 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Chiapas
Coordinates: 17.2° North, 92.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.8° North, 88.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Simojovel Formation:La Quinta Member:Finca Carmitto
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: biomicrite and interbedd muddy calcareous sandstones
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
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:85794
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-01-16 00:29:49 Last modified:2009-01-16 02:29:49
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]