AB99-10 Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro (Pleistocene of Panama)

Also known as Reef 3600

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Gruta Member (Isla Colon Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• 2.2-1.4 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• windward reef, 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 120354: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea cylindrica Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussismilia hispida Verrill 1901 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral
Mycetophyllia lamarckiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
entered as Agaricia lamarckiana
Mycetophyllia ferox Wells 1973 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 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 - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral