ammonites
Sound Bay I, San Andres Island (Miocene of Colombia)

Also known as Reef 2044

Where: Colombia (12.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Andres Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• corals and small coral patch reefs in lagoonal environment

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 73793: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling