Cerro de Moctezuma, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (22.5° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• shallow marine limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Prinz. 1991. Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216:147-209 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58547: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea hemisphaerica Gregory 1900 stony coral
Isastrea ex gr. salinensis Koby 1885 stony coral
Isastrea richardsoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral