Sound Bay I, San Andres Island (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Reef 2044

Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Andres Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• corals and small coral patch reefs in lagoonal environment

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Geister. 1975. Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B 15:1-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73793: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites cf. douvillei Vaughan 1919 stony coral
"Porites toulai" = Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cf. imperatoris, Montastrea cf. cavernosa, "Montastrea cf. canalis" = Montastraea endothecata, "Montastrea bainbridgensis" = Montastraea endothecata
Montastrea cf. imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Montastrea cf. cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
"Montastrea cf. canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Montastrea bainbridgensis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Stylophora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster caudatus Jackson 1922 sand dollar
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop