TB1-B, 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)

• lower level, 1.5 m below 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 102964: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora "sp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. digitifera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Favites halicora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral