Atecoxco locality, La Compañía section (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Mexico (18.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 53.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: collected by J. G. Aguilera in the end of the 19th century

Primary reference: H. Löser, P. Garcia-Barrera, C. C. Mendoza-Rosales and J. Ortega-Hernández. 2013. Corals from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian - Early Albian) of Puebla (Mexico) - Introduction and Family Stylinidae. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 30(2):385-403 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160724: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina rozkowskae" = Heliocoenia rozkowskae Morycowa 1964 stony coral
Acanthocoenia neocomiensis Volz 1903 stony coral
Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral
Enallhelia somaensis Eguchi 1942 stony coral