Airport, San Andres Island (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Andres Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Geister. 1975. Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B 15:1-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73800: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral
Stylophora cf. imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
"Helioseris cf. cucullata" = Leptoseris cucullata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Agaricia cf. undata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Scolymia sp. Haime 1852 stony coral
"Teleiophyllia sp." = Manicina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Colpophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Diploria cf. labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
? Trachyphyllia sp., "Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata
? Trachyphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Thysanus excentricus Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Astraea sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam