Cerros del Agua, Pedregoso: Early Miocene, Venezuela

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
10 specimens
4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Trachyphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
1 specimen
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Venezuela
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 69.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.7° North, 63.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pedregoso
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: with thinner beds of sandstone and limestone
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: interbeds were deposited as debris flows or turbiditis; they include clasts transported from shallow water into the basinal settings
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87097
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Nimke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-04 02:27:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29291. K. G. Johnson, M. R. Sanchez-Villagra, and O. A. Aguilera. 2009. The Oligocene-Miocene Transition on Coral Reefs in the Falcon Basin (NM Venezuela). Palaios 24:59-69 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke]