Bed 4, LACMIP Locality 17685, Gaillard Cut, Culebra Fm: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora saludensis Vaughan 1919
Acropora panamensis Vaughan 1919
Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pectiniidae
Fungophyllia informal sp. A Gerth 1923
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mycetophyllia bullbrooki Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919
Porites douvillei Vaughan 1919
Porites waylandi Foster 1986
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea conferta (Duncan 1863)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona panamensis Vaughan 1919
Leptoseris walli Vaughan 1926
Leptoseris anguillensis (Vaughan 1919)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea endotheca
original and current combination Montastraea
listed as Montastraea
Montastrea imperatoris (Vaughan 1919)
listed as Montastraea
Montastrea canalis (Vaughan 1919)
synonym of Montastraea endothecata
listed as Montastraea
see common names

Geography
Country:Panama
Coordinates: 9.1° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.1° North, 77.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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 Limestone
Local section:Gaillard Cut Local bed:80 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The thickness for the formation is about 150 m at this point. meters indicate distance to border of Las Cascadas Formation; beds about 6 m thick. AGE: Early Miocene in text; direct date extrapolated from Cheetham et al. (1999), =Aquitanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Secondary lithology:fine lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: branching-coral boundstone, thin interbeds (10 cm) of fine-grained calcarenite containing wavy bedding of mudstone are locally present
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm Tectonic setting:forearc basin
Geology comments: Tectonic setting: could also be an active rift basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2776
Database number:60261
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-08 08:08:54 Last modified:2012-11-29 13:20:30
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-08 08:08:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17338. 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]