Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Los Bagres Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• The Los Bagres Limestone occurs in the lower part of the Eocene Las Bermudez Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1974. A new genus of scleractinian coral from the Early Tertiary of Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 84(1):377-379 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Leptoria spenceri Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Atopocoenia kugleri n. gen. n. sp.
Atopocoenia kugleri n. gen. n. sp. Wells 1974 stony coral | |
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea altissima" = Montastraea
"Montastrea altissima" = Montastraea stony coral | |
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral |