Where: Florida (25.1° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 80.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Key Largo Limestone Formation, 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: line transect 40 m in length
Primary reference: B. J. Greenstein, H. A. Curran, and J. M. Pandolfi. 1998. Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province: a Pleistocene perspective. Coral Reefs 17:249-261 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102945: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
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Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Porites divaricata Lesueur 1820 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
"Montastrea ex gr. annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea ex gr. annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
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Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |