Where: Aruba (12.5° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Seroe Domi Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Biostratigraphy and strontium isotope dating suggest an age range from Middle Miocene (Langhian and Serravallian) for the lower part of the formation and Late Miocene-Pliocene (Tortonian-Piacenzian) or possibly early Pleistocene (Gelasian) for the upper part (Foulke et al., 1996; Budd et al., 1998).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. H. De Buisonjé. 1974. Neogene and Quaternary geology of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen 74:1-291 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209169: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Macropneustes ventricosus Lamarck 1816 heart urchin | |
Clypeaster rosaceus Linnaeus 1758 sand dollar | |
Encope michelini Agassiz 1841 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus rotundatus Heilprin 1887 scallop | |
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial |