Where: Cuba (23.1° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124676: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Orbicella imperatoris" = Montastrea imperatoris
"Orbicella imperatoris" = Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Solenastrea cf. hyades Dana 1846 stony coral |