Bed 6, LACMIP Loc. 17685 - Gaillard Cut [Emperador Limestone]: Aquitanian, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea endotheca
original and current combination Montastraea
listed as Montastraea
Montastrea canalis (Vaughan 1919)
synonym of Montastraea endothecata
listed as Montastraea
Montastrea imperatoris (Vaughan 1919)
listed as Montastraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea conferta (Duncan 1863)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites douvillei Vaughan 1919
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
Porites waylandi Foster 1986
Porites anguillensis Vaughan 1919
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona panamensis Vaughan 1919
Leptoseris anguillensis (Vaughan 1919)
Leptoseris walli Vaughan 1926
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mycetophyllia bullbrooki Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1926
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:90 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 1 m thick. AGE: direct date extrapolated from Kirby et al. (1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: calcirudite
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:60264
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-08 08:17:18 Last modified:2012-11-29 13:52:45
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-08 08:17:18
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]