SB1-D, Sandy Bay, Cape Range (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.2° S, 113.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 113.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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 103065: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. aspera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussidae indet. Ortmann 1890 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
? Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier 1971 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral