Where: Puerto Rico (18.3° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pepino Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124635: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Astreopora portoricensis n. sp.
Astreopora portoricensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Astrocoenia portoricensis n. sp." = Astrocoenia portoricoensis
"Astrocoenia portoricensis n. sp." = Astrocoenia portoricoensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Leptoseris portoricensis n. sp.
Leptoseris portoricensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Goniopora portoricensis n. sp." = Porites portoricensis
"Goniopora portoricensis n. sp." = Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Cyathomorpha antiguensis" = Agathiphyllia antiguensis, "Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis
"Cyathomorpha antiguensis" = Agathiphyllia antiguensis Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Cyathomorpha tenuis" = Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Maeandra portoricensis n. sp." = Diploria portoricensis
"Maeandra portoricensis n. sp." = Diploria portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Orbicella costata" = Montastrea costata
"Orbicella costata" = Montastrea costata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |