Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 58.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Los Bagres Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• The Los Bagres Limestone occurs in the lower part of the Eocene Las Bermudez Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1974. A new genus of scleractinian coral from the Early Tertiary of Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 84(1):377-379 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2008

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