Santa Amelia (Cretaceous of Guatemala)

Where: Peten, Guatemala (16.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° N, 66.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• probably Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78121: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida -
Barnumia browni n. gen. n. sp.
Barnumia browni n. gen. n. sp. Cooke 1953 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster amelianus n. sp. Cooke 1953 heart urchin
 Cassiduloida -
"Pygurostoma pasionensis n. sp." = Pygurostoma pasionense
"Pygurostoma pasionensis n. sp." = Pygurostoma pasionense Cooke 1949 sea urchin