Machapoorie faunule, Trinidad (Miocene to of Trinidad and Tobago)

Also known as Reef 2467

Where: Trinidad and Tobago (10.5° N, 61.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 58.3° 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

• white to yellow impure limestone. Corals locally abundant but no extensive reef development

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 27593: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 13.12.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only zooxanthellate corals
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona machapooriensis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
Pavona trinitatis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi, Trachyphyllia bilobata
"Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi Vaughan 1926 stony coral
Trachyphyllia bilobata Duncan 1863 stony coral