Tiarei, outer ridge, M0009B,D,E, M0021A,B, M0024A, M0025B, Tahiti (Pleistocene of French Polynesia)

Also known as Reef 3982

Where: French Polynesia (17.5° S, 149.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 149.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• max. age from core M0009B-15R (121 mbsl), min. age from core M0024A-1R (91.3 mbsl)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: E. Abbey, J. M. Webster, J. C. Braga, K. Sugihara, C. Wallace, Y. Iryu, D. Potts, T. Done, G. Camoin and C. Seard. 2011. Variation in deglacial coralgal assemblages and their paleoenvironmental significance: IODP Expedition 310, "Tahiti Sea Level". Global and Planetary Change 76:1-15 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104937: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Pachyseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites lichen Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites lichen/rus
Porites lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites lobata/solida
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora aequituberculata Bernard 1897 stony coral
Montipora tuberculosa Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pocillopora eydouxi Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae