AB93-77 Colon Island, Bocas del Toro: Early Pleistocene, Panama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
5 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
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:Isla Colon Member:Ground Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 2.2-1.4 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: sandy "limestone"
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: leeward of the La Gruta Member reefs, shallow back reef
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:120272
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-11-09 20:22:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-09 20:22:47
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]