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
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
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Pavona machapooriensis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral
Pavona trinitatis Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral | |
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral | |
"Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi, Trachyphyllia bilobata
"Antillophyllia sawkinsi" = Trachyphyllia sawkinsi Vaughan 1926 stony coral
Trachyphyllia bilobata Duncan 1863 stony coral |