San Salvador, reef-cap facies (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

Where: San Salvador, Bahamas (24.0° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 74.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• Densely intergrown, arborescent forms of the corallinacean alga Neogoniolithon stricture form a reef-capping facies of algal framestone. This framework has a maximum thickness of approximately 0.7 m near its southwestern margin. Near the

•northern end of the reef, the algal framestone pinches out beneath a discrete body of coralgal rock

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. E. Hattin and V. L. Warren. 1989. Stratigraphic analysis of a fossil Neogoniolithon-capped patch reef and associated facies, San Salvador, Bahamas. Coral Reefs (8)19-30 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148706: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Neogoniolithon strictum
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812