Omega Gardens (Pleistocene of Cayman Islands)

Also known as Reef 3752

Where: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (19.3° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• dated at 121 +- 6 ka (Woodroffe et al. 1983)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; packstone

• patches of corals are scattered throughout bivalve facies and between patch reefs
• skeletal packstone to grainstone (bivalve facies B); Montastrea annularis-Porites porites association

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. G. Hunter and B. Jones. 1996. Coral associations of the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman. Coral Reefs 15(4):249-267 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103503: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites, Porites divaricata
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites divaricata Lesueur 1820 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina areolata, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral