Salina, salinaE_53, Curacao (Miocene of Netherlands Antilles)

Also known as Reef 2679

Where: Netherlands Antilles (12.1° N, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 68.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Seroe Domi Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Radiometric age: 6.8 Ma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Semiquantitative data reported as: 1 = rare, 2 = common, 3 = abundant, 4 = superabundant

Primary reference: A. F. Budd and K. G. Johnson. 1999. Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs. Paleobiology 25(2):188-200 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41028: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 06.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
ssp. -2
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
ssp. -2 and -3
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral