Arroyo Ekieps locality, Siamaná Fm, station code 550008 (Miocene to of Colombia)

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

• shallow marine deposits with hermatypic zooxanthellate corals and was deposited in an inner shelf at less than 50 m depth.
• fringing and patch reefs

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
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Rhynchozoon sp. Hincks 1895
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora tampae Weisbord 1973 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastraea endothecata" = Montastraea endothecata, "Montastraea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata
"Montastraea endothecata" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Montastraea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral