USGS 5849 - Mount Hope [Mount Hope Fm] (Pleistocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.3° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 79.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Hope Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• inner flat

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 124662: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
subsp. purpurea
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia fastigiata
Eusmilia fastigiata Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina varicosa, Oculina diffusa
Oculina varicosa Lesueur 1820 stony coral
Oculina diffusa Lamarck 1816 stony coral