PBDB Collection

Bed 4, LACMIP Locality 17685, Gaillard Cut, Culebra Fm (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as Reef 2776

Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emperador Limestone Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• The thickness for the formation is about 150 m at this point. meters indicate distance to border of Las Cascadas Formation; beds about 6 m thick. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified, fine-grained grainstone

• Tectonic setting: could also be an active rift basin

• branching-coral boundstone, thin interbeds (10 cm) of fine-grained calcarenite containing wavy bedding of mudstone are locally present

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K. G. Johnson and M. X. Kirby. 2006. The Emperador Limestone rediscovered: early miocene corals from the Culebra Formation, Panama. Journal of Paleontology 80(2):283-293 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60261: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
Scleractinia - Siderastreidae	Siderastrea conferta Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral
Scleractinia - Poritidae	Porites waylandi, Porites macdonaldi, Porites douvillei, Porites baracoaensis, Porites anguillensis Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral Porites douvillei Vaughan 1919 stony coral Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Scleractinia - Agariciidae	Leptoseris anguillensis, Leptoseris walli, Pavona panamensis Leptoseris anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral Leptoseris walli Vaughan 1926 stony coral Pavona panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Scleractinia - Montastraeidae	"Montastrea endotheca" = Montastraea, "Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata, Montastrea imperatoris "Montastrea endotheca" = Montastraea stony coral listed as Montastraea "Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral listed as Montastraea Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral listed as Montastraea
Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae	Stylophora granulata, Pocillopora arnoldi Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Scleractinia - Acroporidae	Acropora panamensis, Acropora saludensis, Astreopora goethalsi Acropora panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral Acropora saludensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Scleractinia - Mussidae	Mycetophyllia bullbrooki Mycetophyllia bullbrooki Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
Scleractinia - Pectiniidae	Fungophyllia "sp. A" Fungophyllia "sp. A" Gerth 1923 stony coral