Also known as Reef 2776
Where: Panama (9.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emperador Limestone Member (Culebra Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• The thickness for the formation is about 150 m at this point. meters indicate distance to border of Las Cascadas Formation; beds about 1 m thick. AGE: direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: K. G. Johnson and M. X. Kirby. 2006. The Emperador Limestone rediscovered: early miocene corals from the Culebra Formation, Panama. Journal of Paleontology 80(2):283-293 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60264: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
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Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites douvillei Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Leptoseris anguillensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Leptoseris walli Vaughan 1926 stony coral
Pavona panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea endotheca" = Montastraea, "Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata, Montastrea imperatoris
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Mycetophyllia bullbrooki Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926 stony coral | |