CC4-E, Cape Cuvier, Lake Macleod (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3938

Where: Western Australia, Australia (24.2° S, 113.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° S, 113.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

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 102971: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Psammocora sp. Dana 1846 stony coral