AB99-05 Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro (Miocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.3° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fish Hole Member (Old Bank Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• fringing reef, <20 m water depth
• 4 m thick reef unit of rubbly, bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. S. Klaus, D. F. McNeill, A. F. Budd and A. G. Coates. 2012. Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata. Coral Reefs 31(1):191-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120393: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia eminens Weisbord 1974 stony coral
Meandrina brasiliensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
[entered as Meandrina braziliensis]
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea franksi" = Orbicella franksi
"Montastrea franksi" = Orbicella franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia natans, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa, "Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa
Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral