Where: Bahamas (25.1° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 78.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: transect 40 m long
Primary reference: A. F. Budd and J. M. Pandolfi. 2004. Overlapping species boundaries and hybridization within the Montastrea "annularis" reef coral complex in the Pleistocene of the Bahama Islands. Paleobiology 30(3):396-425 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis, "Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa, Isophyllia sinuosa, "Isophyllastrea rigida" = Isophyllia rigida
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Isophyllia sinuosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Isophyllastrea rigida" = Isophyllia rigida Dana 1848 stony coral | |
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Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |