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
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 | |
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Diploria labyrinthiformis, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral |