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
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 | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis, "Montastrea nancyi" = Orbicella nancyi
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral | |
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Siderastrea siderea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral |