Also known as Reef 2227
Where: Cochise County, Arizona (31.3° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 66.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Mural Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. M. Hartshorne. 1989. Facies architecture of a Lower Cretaceous coral-rudist patch reef, Arizona. Cretaceous Research 10:311-336 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74146: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Microsolena texana Wells 1932 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop | |
Toucasia hancockensis Whitney 1952 rudist | |
Caprinuloidea gracilis rudist
Coalcomana ramosa Boehm 1898 rudist | |
Monopleura cf. marcida, "Petalodontia felixi" = Pseudopetalodontia felixi
Monopleura cf. marcida rudist
"Petalodontia felixi" = Pseudopetalodontia felixi Douvillé 1900 rudist | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |