Mission Hill, San Andres Island (Miocene of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Andres Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Geister. 1975. Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B 15:1-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster lanceolatus Cotteau 1897 sand dollar
Clypeaster concavus Cotteau 1875 sand dollar
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop