El Rodeo II (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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

• La roca es una caliza margosa de color crema, que intemperiza a amarillento, en estratos medianos a masivos...

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis cf. fotisalensis Bendukidze 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandrophyllia montezumae Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
"Myriophyllia neocomiensis" = Eugyra neocomiensis
"Myriophyllia neocomiensis" = Eugyra neocomiensis Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thamnoseris arborescens Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina sablensis Trautschold 1886 stony coral