Tonosi, USGS 6587 (Oligocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (7.4° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 99.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia guantanamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Trochoseris meinzeri" = Trochoseris aperta
"Trochoseris meinzeri" = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia macdonaldi n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Maeandra antiguensis" = Meandrina antiguensis
"Maeandra antiguensis" = Meandrina antiguensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea crassolamellata Duncan 1863 stony coral