Also known as Reef 3751
Where: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (12.1° N, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 69.0° 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 102708: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral | |
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral |