Where: Colombia (12.0° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 67.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Siamaná Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• presence Siderastrea siderea, Mimachlamys canalis and principally the large benthic foraminifera assemblages point to an early Miocene age
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bryozoan specimens were obtained from the surfaces of coral colonies and in the attached sediment. The coral samples were collected from seven stations along transects of 10 m
Primary reference: P. Flórez, E. di Martino, and L. V. Ramalho. 2021. Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part I: Cyclostomata, “Anasca” and Cribrilinoidea Cheilostomata. Journal of Paleontology 95(4):694-719 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211332: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 14.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gymnophorella hadra n. gen. n. sp.
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Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Hydrozoa | |
? Millepora sp. fire coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
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