CM07-11 Colon Island, Bocas del Toro: Early Pleistocene, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea franksi
Gregory 1895
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Undaria agaricites
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
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= Agaricia agaricites
Linnaeus 1758
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| subspecies pusilla | ||||||||||
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Undaria crassa
(Verrill 1901)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.4° North, 82.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.7° North, 81.8° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: abundant corals and skeletal debris admixed with carbonate and siliciclastic mud | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
| Geology comments: deeper water (>20 m) | |
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: | 120220 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel, W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-11-09 02:04:06 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2012-11-09 02:04:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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] |
Secondary references:
| 35169 | W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |