Ground Creek, Colon Island, sample 1285, Bocas del Toro: Early Pleistocene, Panama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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| 5 specimens | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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= Caulastrea portoricensis
Coryell 1929
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 9.4° North, 82.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.6° North, 81.8° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| 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
| Geological group: | Bocas del Toro | Formation: | Isla Colon | Member: | Ground Creek |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: thin carbonate sand containing poritid thickets and other reef patches intercalated in mudstones and siltstones with abundant mollusks | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
| Geology comments: back reef/reef flank deposits | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 73631 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-22 06:22:13 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-22 06:22:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24129. | A. F. Budd, K. G. Johnson, T. A. Stemann and B. H. Tompkins. 1999. Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357:119-158 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 24685 | A. G. Coates, D. F. McNeill, M. P. Aubry, W. A. Berggren, and L. S. Collins. 2005. An introduction to the geology of the Bocas del Toro archipelago, Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science 41(3):374-391 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] | |
| 35169 | W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |