Where: Angola (8.8° S, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 11.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1970. Les Madreporaires du Neogene et du Quaternaire de l'Angola [Neogene and Quaternary corals from Angola]. Annalen Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 8: Geologische Wetenschappen 68:13-33 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Caryophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
Flabellum aussonium stony coral
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
Flabellum extensum Michelin 1841 stony coral |