San Jose de las Rusias: Late/Upper Oligocene, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Antiguastrea cellulosa
(Duncan 1863)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Maeandra dumblei n. sp.
Vaughan 1919
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recombined as Diploria dumblei | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Tamaulipas |
Coordinates: | 23.6° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 24.3° North, 93.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | San Fernando | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: aka San Fernando Formation; was San Rafael. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 124699 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2012-02-21 19:54:50 | Last modified: | 2023-01-10 22:31:54 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-02-21 19:54:50 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12754. | T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen] |