Where: Palm Beach County, Florida (26.7° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° N, 80.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bermont Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Glades Formation or "Unit A" in original text; revised to Bermont Formation in Portell & Kittle (2010). AGE: Early?-Middle Pleistocene. Regarded Middle Pleistocene in Portell & Kittle (2010) on the basis of 87Sr/86Sr isotope analyses.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: N. E. Weisbord. 1974. Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 66(285):259-544 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85455: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Siderastrea pliocenica Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Oculina diffusa, "Archohelia limonensis" = Petrophyllia limonensis
Oculina diffusa Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Archohelia limonensis" = Petrophyllia limonensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
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Cladocora arbuscula Lesueur 1820 stony coral | |
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Solenastrea bournoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Astrangia floridana Gane 1895 stony coral | |
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Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |