Cerros del Agua, Pedregoso (Miocene of Venezuela)
Where: Venezuela (11.1° N, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pedregoso Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and siltstone
• interbeds were deposited as debris flows or turbiditis; they include clasts transported from shallow water into the basinal settings
• with thinner beds of sandstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87097: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 04.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata, Trachyphyllia sp.
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Trachyphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Astreopora goethalsi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylophora undata Weisbord 1971 stony coral | |
Montastrea imperatoris, "Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata
Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |