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 | |
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Montipora sp., Acropora sp., Acropora ex gr. digitifera, Acropora spicifera, Acropora donei, Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus
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 | |
Goniastrea "sp. 1", "Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
Goniastrea "sp. 1" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral |