Where: Colombia (12.1° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 67.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Siamaná Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Flórez, P. Zapata-Ramírez, and J. S. Klaus. 2018. Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae. Journal of Paleontology 93:1-24 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201392: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.05.2019, edited by Barbara Seuss
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Rhynchozoon sp. Hincks 1895 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Alveopora tampae Weisbord 1973 stony coral | |
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastraea endothecata" = Montastraea endothecata, "Montastraea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata
"Montastraea endothecata" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Montastraea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral |