Lower biostrome - Loma San Juan, western Huetamo area (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Michoacan, Mexico (18.5° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cumburindio Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Lower biostrome

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• at least 4 rudist biostromes
• biostromic rudist limestone, sandstone and argillaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Alencaster and J. Pantoja-Alor. 1996. The rudist Amphitriscoelus (Bivalvia-Hippuritacea) in the lower Cretaceous of southwestern Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 70(3):399-407 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115204: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida -
"Hippuritoidea indet." = Hippuritacea
"Hippuritoidea indet." = Hippuritacea Gray 1848 rudist