Santiago Coatepec [Coatepec Sandstone] (Jurassic of Mexico)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow water platform environment in the high-energy zone.
• LITHOLOGY: Green sandstones from the base of the upper member just above the conglomerate.

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

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Several characteristic foraminiferal species listed, and presence of gastropods and bivalves mentioned but not specified. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites pueblaensis Alencáster et al. 2009 oyster
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Demospongiae
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955
  - Solenoporaceae
Marinella lugeoni Pfender 1939
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
 Loftusiacea - Mesoendothyridae
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Textulariina - Orbitopsellidae
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
  -
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804