Piggott's Hill (North), Antigua Fm (Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda)

Where: Antigua and Barbuda (17.1° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 60.9° 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 203878: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia tenuis Duncan 1863 stony coral
Agathiphyllia hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral