Platy coral facies, Anguilla: Burdigalian - Serravallian, Anguilla

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
2 quadrats
43 quadrats
50 quadrats
2 quadrats
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
14 quadrats
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
14 quadrats
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antillophyllia sawkinsi (Vaughan 1926)
1 quadrats
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea conferta (Duncan 1863)
2 quadrats
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites waylandi Foster 1986
58 quadrats
50 quadrats
62 quadrats
63 quadrats
4 quadrats
3 quadrats
see common names

Geography
Country:Anguilla
Coordinates: 18.2° North, 63.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.0° North, 59.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian - Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene
*International age/stage:Burdigalian - Serravalian
Key time interval: Burdigalian - Serravallian
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 11.63 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Anguilla
Stratigraphy comments: Most likely late early Miocene, based on Sr isotopes, forams and ostracods
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Bioerosion:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Only corals described
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 642
Database number:22973
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-05 06:57:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-05 06:57:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6615. A. F. Budd, K.G. Johnson, and J.C. Edwards. 1995. Caribbean reef coral diversity during the Early to Middle Miocene: an Example from the Anguilla Formation. Coral Reefs 14(2):109-117 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]