Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Andres Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 73799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster concavus Cotteau 1875 sand dollar
Clypeaster lanceolatus Cotteau 1897 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Anthozoa | |
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral |