Where: French Polynesia (17.5° S, 149.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 149.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• prevailing facies in cores P6-P10, ca. 11-3 ka
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: G. Cabioch, G. F. Camoin, and L. F. Montaggioni. 1999. Postglacial growth history of a French Polynesian barrier reef tract, Tahiti, central Pacific. Sedimentology 46:985-1000 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97463: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2010, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea annuligera" = Astrea annuligera, "Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera, Favites ex gr. abdita
"Montastrea annuligera" = Astrea annuligera Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites ex gr. abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Montastraea curta stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Porites lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Porites australiensis Vaughan 1918 stony coral
Porites cf. lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites lobata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Pocillopora eydouxi Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Montipora erythraea, Acropora cytherea, Acropora humilis, Acropora abrotanoides, Acropora ex gr. robusta
Montipora erythraea stony coral
Acropora cytherea Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora platyphylla Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1834 fire coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Serpulorbis annulatus worm shell
Dendropoma maximus worm shell | |
Echinoidea | |
Heterocentrotus trigonarius sea urchin | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Hydrolithon sp., Hydrolithon cf. reinboldi, "Hydrolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes, "Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes, Lithoporella sp., Lithoporella melobesioides, Neogoniolithon fosliei, Neogoniolithon sp., Neogoniolithon absimile, Neogoniolithon propinquum, Peyssonnelia sp., Polystrata dura, Dermatolithon cf. tesselatum, Amphiroa sp., Lithophyllum sp., Titanoderma sp.
Hydrolithon sp. Foslie 1909
"Hydrolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Peyssonnelia sp. Decaisne 1841
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Titanoderma sp. Naegeli 1858 | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 |