Serranía de Cocinas, Guajira Peninsula: Early Kimmeridgian, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Algae
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informal Algae indet.
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinastreidae
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Allocoenia trochiformis
Etallon 1864
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montlivaltiidae
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Isastrea sp.
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Stylinidae
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Convexastrea dendroidea
de Fromentel 1861
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Dendrohelia sp.
Etallon 1860
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Stylina micrommata
(Quenstedt 1857)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Cladophylliidae
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Halysitastraea columbiana n. gen., n. sp.
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Calamophylliidae
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Calamoseris sp.
Alloiteau 1952
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dermosmiliidae
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Calamophylliopsis sp.
Alloiteau 1952
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Thamnasteriidae
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Thamnasteria dendroidea
(Lamouroux 1821)
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya sp.
Sowerby 1823
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Geography
| Country: | Colombia |
| Coordinates: | 11.8° North, 71.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.5° North, 31.6° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 152.2 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Bioerosion: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 2083 | ||
| Database number: | 34736 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-09-18 01:40:21 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-18 01:40:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9215. | O. F. Geyer. 1968. Nota sobre la posición estratigráfica y la fauna de corales del Jurásico superior en la Península de la Guajira (Colombia). Boletín de Geología (Bucaramanga) 24:9-22 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |