USGS 6966, Crocus Bay (Miocene to of Anguilla)

Also known as Reef 642

Where: Anguilla (18.2° N, 63.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anguilla Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.W. Vaughan in 1914; reposited in the USNM

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 124703: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
"Goniopora clevei" = Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
"Goniopora canalis" = Goniopora hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Pironastrea anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Orbicella canalis" = Montastraea endothecata, "Orbicella costata" = Montastrea costata
"Orbicella canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Orbicella costata" = Montastrea costata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa anguillensis Rathbun 1919 decapod
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
Lyreidus fastigatus n. sp. Rathbun 1919 crab