Where: Venezuela (11.0° N, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cauderalito Member (Agua Clara Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,
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 87050: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 02.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stephanocoenia duncani Foster 1987 stony coral | |
Stylophora affinis Duncan 1863 stony coral
Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Acropora saludensin stony coral | |
Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata, Montastrea imperatoris
"Montastrea canalis" = Montastraea endothecata Duncan 1863 stony coral
Montastrea imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata
"Montastrea limbata" = Orbicella limbata Duncan 1863 stony coral |