anticlinal de El Guate, base of San Luis Fm (Oligocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.2° N, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 64.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: San Luis Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• intercalaciones de paquetes decamétricos decalizas, lutitas calcáreas con areniscas métricas ylenticulares

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: O. Macsotay and I. Olivares. 2007. Algunas esponjas fosiles de Venezuela. Descripcion de Discocoelia winkleri nueva especie (Porifera: Faretronida) del Oligoceno Tardio. Bol. Inst. Oceanogr. Venezuela 46(2):161-173 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146393: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Calcarea
 Faretronida - Discocoelidae
Discocoelia winkleri calcareous sponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop