USGS Loc. 6024b - Rio Agua Salud [Emperador Limestone]: Aquitanian, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Stylophora macdonaldi
Vaughan 1919
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Stylophora imperatoris
Vaughan 1919
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Astrocoenia portoricensis
Vaughan 1919
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| corrected as Astrocoenia portoricoensis | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora saludensis n. sp.
Vaughan 1919
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Acropora panamensis n. sp.
Vaughan 1919
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.2° North, 79.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.2° North, 77.4° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 20.5 Ma (Sr isotope) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Culebra | Member: | Emperador | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Emperador Limestone Member of the La Boca Formation. Orginally placed in Caimito, but emended by Woodring (1970), and then Kirby et al. (2009). AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999), =Aquitanian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 2776 | ||
| Database number: | 124636 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-02-20 21:47:32 | Last modified: | 2012-11-29 13:56:16 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-02-20 21:47:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12754. | T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 43691 | M. X. Kirby, D. S. Jones, and B. J. MacFadden. 2009. Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninula. PLoS One 3(7):1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |