Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.2° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 49.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coatepec Sandstone Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Previously referred to the upper member of the Matzitzi Fm. Alencáster et al. (2009) refer to this as the informal Coatepex Sandstone. AGE: probably Late Kimmeridgian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, green sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: IGM - Coleccíon Nacional de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Ciudad Universitaria.
Primary reference: L. Omana and C. González Arreola. 2008. Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) larger benthic Foraminifera from Santiago Coatepec, SE Puebla, Mexico. Geobios 41(6):799-817 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89638: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Trichites pueblaensis Alencáster et al. 2009 oyster | |
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Demospongiae | |
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955 | |
Marinella lugeoni Pfender 1939 | |
Foraminifera | |
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Freixialina planispiralis Ramalho 1969 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 |