Also known as Reef 2467
Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.3° N, 61.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 58.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: N8-N12 zone, Tamana Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 11.6 Ma)
• late Early to early Middle Miocene age indicated in abstract and tables but in text an age of the Tamana of Manghian to Serravalian is given.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: K. G. Johnson. 2001. Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad. Journal of Paleontology 75(3):513-526 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27591: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 13.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Stylophora undata Weisbord 1971 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
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Psammocora trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral | |
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Goniopora hilli Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
Porites trinitatis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral | |
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Leptoseris gardineri van der Horst 1921 stony coral
Pavona pennyi Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
Agaricia undata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
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Montastrea trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral
Montastrea brevis Duncan 1864 stony coral
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Caulastrea portoricensis, "Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata
Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929 stony coral
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
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Colpophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |