RB1-B, Red Bluff, Lake Macleod (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3938

Where: Western Australia, Australia (24.0° S, 113.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° 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 103058: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. aspera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora millepora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral