Also known as Reef 1350
Where: Puerto Rico (18.5° N, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 65.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aymamon Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Primary reference: E. N. Edinger and M. J. Risk. 1994. Oligocene-Miocene extinction and geographic restriction od Caribbean corals: Roles of turbidity, termperature, and nutrients. Palaios 9:576-598 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45406: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 20.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Meandrina (Placocyathus) sp." = Placocyathus
"Meandrina (Placocyathus) sp." = Placocyathus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |