AB98-18 Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro: Messinian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea faveolata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
9 specimens
recombined as Orbicella faveolata
Caulastrea portoricensis (Coryell 1929)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia tuberosa Duncan 1863
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Hadrophyllia saundersi Budd and Johnson 1999
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina geisteri Budd and Johnson 1999
4 specimens
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
3 specimens
recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa
Mussismilia hispida (Verrill 1901)
3 specimens
Mycetophyllia danaana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Placocyathus variabilis Duncan 1864
5 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia undata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
1 specimen
Undaria agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
4 specimens
recombined as Agaricia agaricites
Undaria crassa (Verrill 1901)
2 specimens
synonym of Agaricia agaricites
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919
5 specimens
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
2 specimens
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919
9 specimens
Porites portoricensis (Vaughan 1919)
3 specimens
Porites waylandi Foster 1986
5 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia duncani Foster 1987
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864
16 specimens
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea informal sp. A (Blainville 1830)
1 specimen
original and current combination Montastraea
Montastrea cavernosa (Linne 1767)
3 specimens
Montastrea canalis (Vaughan 1919)
5 specimens
synonym of Montastraea endothecata
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.3° North, 82.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.1° North, 81.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Age estimate:5.8 to 5.6 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Old Bank Member:Fish Hole
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: 4 m thick reef unit of rubbly, bioclastic limestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: fringing reef, <20 m water depth
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:120392
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-11-11 19:40:16 Last modified:2011-11-11 02:40:16
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-11 19:40:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38462. J. S. Klaus, D. F. McNeill, A. F. Budd and A. G. Coates. 2012. Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata. Coral Reefs 31(1):191-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]