Patlanoaya macroinvertebrate fauna, Member C (Carboniferous of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.5° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.7° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: C Member (Patlanoaya Beds Formation), Missourian (305.9 - 303.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Member C consists of calcarenitic limestones interbedded with shaly limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. El Albani, D. Vachard, F. Fürsich, B. Buitrón, and A. F. Dios. 2005. Depositional environment and biofacies characterization of the Upper Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian deposits of the San Salvador Patlanoaya section (Puebla, Mexico). Facies 2005(50):629-645 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49788: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Reticulatia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Productellidae
Antiquatonia sp. Miloradovich 1945
Kozlowskia sp. Fredericks 1933
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Crinoidea
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