Farol das Lagostas, Luanda (Miocene of Angola)

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

• no information given

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
Flabellum extensum Michelin 1841 stony coral