Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.2° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 60.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)
• 833 m
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. Beauvais and T. E. Stump. 1976. Corals, molluscs, and paleogeography of Late Jurassic strata of the Cerro Pozo Serna, Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 19:275-301 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85573: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Macgeopsis sonorensis n. sp.
Macgeopsis sonorensis n. sp. Beauvais and Stump 1976 stony coral | |
"Allocoeniopsis bernensis" = Allocoeniopsis luciensis
"Allocoeniopsis bernensis" = Allocoeniopsis luciensis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral | |
"Lepidophylliopsis longimana n. gen." = Thecosmilia longimana, Montlivaltia sp.
"Lepidophylliopsis longimana n. gen." = Thecosmilia longimana Quenstedt 1881 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
"Latiastraea variabilis" = Latiastrea variabilis, Brachyseris chellalensis
"Latiastraea variabilis" = Latiastrea variabilis Etallon 1858 stony coral
Brachyseris chellalensis Beauvais 1969 stony coral | |
Stylina lobata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Aulacomyella neogeae oyster |