Also known as Reef 3950
Where: Bahamas (21.0° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° N, 73.7° 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 102648: 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 nancyi" = Orbicella nancyi, "Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral |