TB1-E, Turtle Bay, East Wallabi Island (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3939

Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.4° S, 113.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 113.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• upper level, 50 cm below 1st calcrete surface

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: transect 25 m in length

Primary reference: B. J. Greenstein and J. M. Pandolfi. 2008. Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14:513-528 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102961: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. digitifera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora spicifera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora donei Veron and Wallace 1984 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea "sp. 1" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral