AB93-75 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 120198: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral