Also known as Reef
Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.7° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 54.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Antimonio Formation, Alaunian to Alaunian (215.6 - 205.6 Ma)
• Based on ammonites
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified, argillaceous, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
• Only corals described in detail
Primary reference: G. D. Stanley, Jr. and C. M. Gonzalez-Leon. 1997. New Late Triassic scleractinian corals from the Antimonio Formation, northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 14:202-207 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34983: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.10.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Meandrostylis antimoniensis" = Maeandrostylis
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Bivalvia | |
Propeamussium cf. schafhaeutli mud scallop | |
Gervillaria sp. Cox 1951 oyster | |
? Lopha cordillerana n. sp.
? Lopha cordillerana n. sp. oyster | |
Palaeocardita peruviana Cox 1949 clam | |
Myophorigonia jaworskii Steinmann 1929 clam |