Also known as Reef 701

Where: Saint Barthélemy, North Atlantic (17.9° N, 62.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 62.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• The sedimentary record displays six sedimentary units, deposited during periods of relative volcanic quiescence. The two lowest units are comprised of a carbonate platform deposited in littoral conditions. The overlaying four carbonate platform units were deposited in a more distal depositional setting (Westercamp and Andreieff, 1983b; Andreieff et al., 1987). The two lowest units were dated as middle Eocene in age (Lutetian to early Bartonian) on the basis of the occurrence of the benthic foraminifer Polylepidina antillea, which points to the P11-P12 planktonic foraminifera biozones (Westercamp and Andreieff, 1983b; Andreieff et al., 1987). The four upper units were also dated as belonging to the middle Eocene (late Lutetian to early Bartonian) on the basis of the co-occurrence of the benthic foraminifera P. antillea and Nummulites striatoreticulus which points to the P12 biozone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified 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 71118: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.04.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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