CM07-14 Colon Island, Bocas del Toro: Early Pleistocene, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa (Linne 1767)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea franksi Gregory 1895
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Undaria crassa (Verrill 1901)
1 specimen
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
Formation:Urraca Member:Mimitimbi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 1.2-0.8 Ma
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:120221
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-11-09 02:21:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-09 02:21:26
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]