USGS Loc. 6024b - Rio Agua Salud [Emperador Limestone] (Miocene of Panama)

Also known as Reef 2776

Where: Panama (9.2° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emperador Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; 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 124636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora panamensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Acropora saludensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
"Astrocoenia portoricensis" = Astrocoenia portoricoensis
"Astrocoenia portoricensis" = Astrocoenia portoricoensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral