Arroyo Uitpa locality, Siamaná Fm, station code 550006 (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.0° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 67.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Siamaná Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 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 201399: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia tenuis
Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea cellulosa
Antiguastrea cellulosa Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites waylandi, Porites portoricensis
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia decaturensis
Astrocoenia decaturensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral