Also known as Reef 3751
Where: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (12.4° N, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 69.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hato Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• top 2 m of the 6-m-thick Hato Unit of the Lower Terrace
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: transects were 40 m long and separated from each other by 500-1000 m
Primary reference: J. M. Pandolfi. 2001. Community structure of Pleistocene coral reefs of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Ecological Monographs 71(1):49-67 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102667: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea "sp. 3"" = Montastraea
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Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Montastrea nancyi" = Orbicella nancyi, "Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata
"Montastrea faveolata" = Orbicella faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral |