Also known as Reef
Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.7° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 55.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Antimonio Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Based on ammonites (Crickmayi Zone)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified, sandy limestone
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 34984: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.10.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Heterastridium sp. Reuss 1865 fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Cuifastraea granulata Melnikova 1983 stony coral | |
Anthostylis sp. Roniewicz 1989 stony coral
Anthostylis acanthophora Frech 1890 stony coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Choristoceras sp. Hauer 1865 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Schafhaeutlia sp. Cossmann 1897 clam |