Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.7° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 53.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Antimonio Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• The strata of the Monos and Antimonio Formations at Sierra del Alamo represents a nearly complete succession of marine sedimentary rock that ranges from Late Permian to Early Jurassic age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified framestone and lithified bafflestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. H. Goodwin. 1999. Paleontology, Paleoecology, and Depositional Environments Within the Upper Triassic (Norian) Carbonate Strata of the Antimonio Formation, Northwest Sonora, Mexico. University of Montana [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41024: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 05.07.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Nodosariata | |
Anthozoa | |
Retiophyllia oppeli Reuss 1864 stony coral
Retiophyllia norica Frech 1890 stony coral |