Christ Church, 195 ka (Pleistocene of Barbados)

Also known as Reef 3820

Where: Barbados (13.1° N, 59.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 59.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Acropora palmata zone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: transect 40 m long, transects were normally separated from each other by 500-1000 m

Primary reference: J. M. Pandolfi and J. B. C. Jackson. 2006. Ecological persistence interrupted in Caribbean coral reefs. Ecology Letters 9:818-826 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102454: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis, "Montastrea nancyi" = Orbicella nancyi
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
"Montastrea nancyi" = Orbicella nancyi Pandolfi 2007 stony coral
organ-pipe Montastrea
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral