NMITA:Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Manicina puntagordensis Weisbord, 1968

Holotype: PRI 27560

Morphologic Description:

Meander series sinuosity: straight

Colony size: medium (10-30cm)

Attachment of skeleton: free-living

Epitheca: well-developed

Wall development between buds: never

Symmetry of bud geometry: multi-directional

Calice or valley width: very large (>15mm)

Calice relief: high (4-10mm)

Calicular platform shape: v-shaped

Coenosteum: narrow (< valley width)

Exothecal dissepiments: present

Number of septal cycles: >3

Septal spacing (per 5mm): <6

Relative septa thickness: unequal

Relative costae thickness: equal

Continuity of costae: continuous

Septal lobes: present

Paliform lobes: absent

Columella continuity: continuous

Columella width: 1/3

Endothecal dissepiments: abundant

Wall structure: parathecal

Double or single wall: double

Distribution:

Late Miocene to Early Pliocene : Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Seroe Domi Fm., Salina St. Michiel, Curacao;

Early Pliocene : Gurabo Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic; Seroe Domi Fm., Salina St. Michiel, Curacao; Seroe Domi Fm., Salina St. Michiel, Curacao; Seroe Domi Fm., Salina St. Michiel, Curacao; Seroe Domi Fm., Salina St. Michiel, Curacao;

Early Pliocene to Late Pliocene : Tamiami Fm., Sarasota, Florida; Seroe Domi Fm., St. Michiel ridges, Curacao; Seroe Domi Fm., St. Michiel ridges, Curacao;

Late Pliocene : Bowden Fm., Bowden Shell Beds, Jamaica; Bowden Fm., Bowden seacliff, Jamaica; Q.Chocolate Fm., Buenos Aires, Costa Rica; Shark's Hole Fm., Isla Bastimentos, Panama;

Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene : Moin Fm., Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica; Moin Fm., Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica; Moin Fm., Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica; Moin Fm., Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica; Moin Fm., Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica; 'Old Pera' beds, Pera Point, Jamaica;

Early Pleistocene : Caloosahatchee Fm., Shell Creek, Florida;