AB93-74 Colon Island, Bocas del Toro (Pleistocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 81.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hill Point Member (Urraca Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• 1.2-0.8 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; limestone

• barrier reef on the margin of a shallow (<10 m), well-agitated platform

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 120197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia duncani Foster 1987 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Helioseris cucullata" = Leptoseris cucullata, Agaricia sp., "Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Helioseris cucullata" = Leptoseris cucullata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Meandrina "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata, "Montastrea franksi" = Orbicella franksi
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Montastrea franksi" = Orbicella franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Colpophyllia "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Mycetophyllia ferox Wells 1973 stony coral