Where: Nicaragua (11.3° N, 86.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 85.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brito Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
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 124538: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Astrocoenia dachiardii Duncan 1873 stony coral | |
Syzygophyllia hayesi n. sp.
Syzygophyllia hayesi n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral |