Cerro Pozo Serna, SDSU 2309 (Jurassic to of Mexico)

Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.2° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 60.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• 833 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• thin sandstone interbedded within thinly laminated calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais and T. E. Stump. 1976. Corals, molluscs, and paleogeography of Late Jurassic strata of the Cerro Pozo Serna, Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 19:275-301 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85573: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Ellipsosmiliidae
Macgeopsis sonorensis n. sp. Beauvais and Stump 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Allocoeniopsis bernensis" = Allocoeniopsis luciensis
"Allocoeniopsis bernensis" = Allocoeniopsis luciensis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Lepidophylliopsis longimana n. gen." = Thecosmilia longimana, Montlivaltia sp.
"Lepidophylliopsis longimana n. gen." = Thecosmilia longimana Quenstedt 1881 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Latiastraea variabilis" = Latiastrea variabilis, Brachyseris chellalensis
"Latiastraea variabilis" = Latiastrea variabilis Etallon 1858 stony coral
Brachyseris chellalensis Beauvais 1969 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina lobata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Aulacomyellidae