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Revista mexicana de ciencias geológicas
On-line version ISSN 2007-2902Print version ISSN 1026-8774
Rev. mex. cienc. geol vol.22 n.1 Ciudad de México Apr. 2005
Artículos
Corals from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ocozocoautla Formation, Chiapas, Mexico
Corales de la Formación Ocozocoautla del Cretácico Superior (Maastrichtiano), Chiapas, México
1Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007 USA. hfilkorn@nhm.org.
2Instituto de Historia Natural y Ecología, Calzada de los Hombres Ilustres s/n, 29000 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
3Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D. F., Mexico.
The coral species from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) strata of the Ocozocoautla Formation in Chiapas, Mexico, are identified, described and illustrated for the first time. This coral fauna is composed of 12 species, nine of which are colonial, presumably zooxanthellate, reef-building forms. This is the first time that six of these species have been reported from Mexico. The majority (11) of these species are endemic to the Caribbean region and known only from the Late Cretaceous.
Key words: corals; Cretaceous; Maastrichtian; Mexico; Chiapas
Especies de coral recolectadas en estratos del Cretácico Superior (Maastrichtiano), correspondientes a la Formación Ocozocoautla en Chiapas, México, son identificadas, descritas e ilustradas por vez primera. Esta fauna de corales está representada por 12 especies, nueve de las cuales son formas coloniales de arrecife, presumiblemente asociadas a zooxantelas. Seis de estas especies no habían sido reportadas con anterioridad para México. La mayoría (11) de las especies son endémicas de la Provincia del Caribe, y se conocen sólo del Cretácico Tardío.
Palabras clave: corales; Cretácico; Maastrichtiano; México; Chiapas
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank Ricardo Barragán Manzo and Ana Bertha Villaseñor Martínez, both of the Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, the co-chairs and organizers of the session “Mesozoic Invertebrate Paleontology” at the 2003 GSA Cordilleran section meeting at Puerto Vallarta, for conceiving the special issue of this journal and for facilitating the editing of the complete article from which the presented abstract was condensed. Caitlin M. Kelly, Riverside, California, edited the digital images in Figure 2. Two anonymous reviewers provided numerous helpful comments and their efforts are appreciated.
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Received: January 15, 2004; Revised: December 08, 2004; Accepted: December 14, 2004
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