Long's Bay, Antigua Fm (Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda)

Where: Antigua and Barbuda (17.1° N, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 60.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Globigerina ciperoensis ciperoensis foram zone, Antigua Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

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

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: K. G. Johnson. 2003. Reef-coral diversity in the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs. Fossil Corals and Sponges Proceedings of the 9th Internatinal Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Vienna : Austian Academny of Sciences Press 471-492 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203877: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites microscopica
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia tenuis
Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria antiguensis
Diploria antiguensis Vaughn 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora "sp. A"
Hydnophora "sp. A" Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea crassolamellata
Diploastrea crassolamellata Duncan 1863 stony coral