Biche faunule, Trinidad: Burdigalian - Serravallian, Trinidad and Tobago
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea trinitatis
(Vaughan 1926)
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rare category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Antillophyllia sawkinsi
(Vaughan 1926)
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rare category | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Coordinates: | 10.4° North, 61.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.7° North, 56.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 | Zone: | N8-N12 |
| Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 11.63 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tamana | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Early to early Middle Miocene age indicated in abstract and tables but in text an age of the Tamana of Manghian to Serravalian is given. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: white to yellow impure limestone. Corals locally abundant but no extensive reef development | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Only zooxanthellate corals | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 2467 | ||
| Database number: | 27583 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-12-13 07:21:21 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-12-13 07:21:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7444. | K. G. Johnson. 2001. Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad. Journal of Paleontology 75(3):513-526 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |