Where: Dominican Republic (19.6° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tabera Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan, W. Cooke, D. D. Condit, C. P. Ross, W. P. Woodring and F. C. Calkins. 1921. A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic. Geological Survey of the Dominican Republic Memoir 1:1-268 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124743: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Goniopora aff. regularis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
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Astrocoenia decaturensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Orbicella insignis" = Montastraea endothecata
"Orbicella insignis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |