Bonah River II, Huon Peninsula: Holocene, Papua New Guinea

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Lithophyllaceae
Lithophyllum kotschyanum
Titanoderma sp. Naegeli 1858
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Spongitaceae
Neogoniolithon fosliei
Neogoniolithon rufum
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae
Hydrolithon reinboldii
Hydrolithon laeve
Hydrolithon megacystum
Porolithon onkodes (Heydrich 1897)
recombined as Hydrolithon onkodes
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Porolithon gardineri
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnium asperulum
replaced by Lithothamnion
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Mesophyllaceae
Mesophyllum purpurascens
Mesophyllum mesomorphum
Mesophyllum erubescens (Foslie 1900)
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea teres Gmelin 1791
recombined as Talostolida teres
Cypraea nucleus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus
Cypraea isabella Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Luria isabella
Cypraea childreni Gray 1825
recombined as Ipsa childreni
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Cypraea bulla Adams-Reeve 1848
recombined as Prionovolva bulla
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus undosus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene testudinaria Link 1807
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus balteatus
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo petholatus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Turbo (Turbo) petholatus
Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora informal sp. 1 Gray 1821
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815
Acropora ex gr. robusta (Dana 1846)
Acropora ex gr. humilis (Dana 1846)
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus (Dana 1846)
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
recombined as Isopora palifera
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Helioporacea
Heliopora sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Papua New Guinea State/province:Morobe
Coordinates: 6.2° South, 147.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.2° South, 147.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:8500 to 7711 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: samples after mass-mortality event dated as ca. 8500 cal. YBP
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: upper fore-reef slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97438
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-27 04:40:52 Last modified:2010-07-27 07:40:52
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-27 04:40:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33221. J. M. Pandolfi, A. W. Tudhope, G. Burr, J. Chappell, E. Edinger, M. Frey, R. Steneck, C. Sharma, A. Yeates, M. Jennions, H. Lescinsky and A. Newton. 2006. Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea. Geology 34(11):949-952 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]