Vaersenbaai, Curaçao (Miocene to of Netherlands Antilles)

Where: Netherlands Antilles (12.2° N, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 67.7° 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 209192: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia cf. dominicensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga antillarum d'Orbigny 1853 mussel
 Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
Spengleria rostrata Spengler 1793 clam