Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.7° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 61.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• presumably Aptian-Cenomanian
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ing. Jorge Gonzáles-Alvarado in 1969-1975
Primary reference: M. M. Reyeros de Castillo. 1983. Corales de algunas formaciones cretacicas del Estado de Oaxaca. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, Paleontologia Mexicana (47)1-67 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79463: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 10.03.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Calamophylliopsis cf. fotisalensis Bendukidze 1961 stony coral | |
Meandrophyllia montezumae Felix 1891 stony coral | |
"Myriophyllia neocomiensis" = Eugyra neocomiensis
"Myriophyllia neocomiensis" = Eugyra neocomiensis Fromentel 1857 stony coral | |
Thamnoseris arborescens Felix 1891 stony coral | |
Stylina sablensis Trautschold 1886 stony coral |