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
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 | |
Discocoelia winkleri calcareous sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop |