Grassy Key (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Florida (24.8° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 81.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Key Largo Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• sample FL-140

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Muhs, K. R. Simmons, R. R. Schumann and R. B. Halley. 2011. Sea-level history of the past two interglacial periods: new evidence from U-series dating of reef corals from south Florida. Quaternary Science Reviews 30:570-590 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127143: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral