VLA2-D, Vlaming Head, Cape Range (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3937

Where: Western Australia, Australia (21.8° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 114.1° 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 103070: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
? Favia sp.
? Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp., Hydnophora sp., Goniastrea sp., Goniastrea favulus, Goniastrea australensis
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea favulus Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
? Porites sp., Porites sp.
? Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp., Acropora millepora
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora millepora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp.
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral