Where: Panama (9.4° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ground Creek Member (Isla Colon Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• 2.2-1.4 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and sandy 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 120277: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster
"Madracis mirabilis" = Madracis myriaster Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Isophyllia sinuosa, "Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
Isophyllia sinuosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Eusmilia fastigiata Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral |