Cuidad Victoria, Stinnesbeck Collection (Silurian to of Mexico)

Where: Tamaulipas, Mexico (23.8° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 76.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Ana Limestone Member (Canon de Caballeros Formation), Homerian to Homerian (430.5 - 425.6 Ma)

• The authors indicate that the Santa Ana Member may be diachronous, as to the N some taxa there indicate an age of late Llandovery. They feel that it isn't diachronous, just the age determination needs more work.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• "The fauna from the Santa Ana at loc. JS93-88 represents a rough water Pentamerus community assigned to BA3. Dominance of Atrypa in Stinnesbeck collection...indicates a discrete ecological setting although BA3 is likewise indicated."
• distinctive bioclastic grainstone commonly with abundant coarse grains and granules of polycrystalline and monocrystalline quartz.

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot, R. B. Blodgett, and J. H. Stewart. 1997. European province Late Silurian brachiopods from the Ciudad Victoria area, Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 321:273-293 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5119: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 30.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Cyrtia sp. Dalman 1828
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Rhynchonella aff. stricklandi" = Trigonirhynchia stricklandii
"Rhynchonella aff. stricklandi" = Trigonirhynchia stricklandii Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
? Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterineidae indet. Miller 1877 oyster
"Pterineoid"
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
"trilobites"
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
rugose corals
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral