Finlay, Cerro de Cristo Rey, New Mexico (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (31.4° N, 106.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.2° N, 61.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Finlay Formation, Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• Uppermost 40 m of Finlay Formation were samples

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified shale

• Massive, nodular fine-grained, marly limestone interbedded with thin shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Turnsek, D. V. LeMone, and R. W. Scott. 2003. Tethyan Albian corals, Cerro de Cristo Rey Uplift, Chihuahua and New Mexico. Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleoecology, Texas and Mexico: Perkins Memorial Volume. Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, Special Publications in Geology 1:147-185 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35095: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 10.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Only corals studied in detail
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida -
Ammonitida indet. Haeckel 1866 ammonite
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni, "Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus
"Paratrochocyathus collignoni" = Trochocyathus collignoni Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
"Paratrochocyathus crassus" = Trochocyathus crassus Alloiteau 1958 stony coral