Lanai-Kahoolawe, terrace 1-3 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Reef 3973

Where: Hawaii (20.6° N, 156.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 156.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• post-Mid-Pleistocene-Transition terraces

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• deeper water fore-reef slope
• algal nodule facies, bioclastic facies

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. D. E. Faichney, J. M. Webster, D. A. Clague, J. C. Braga, W. Renema and D. C. Potts. 2011. The impact of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition on the composition of submerged reefs of the Maui Nui Complex, Hawaii. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 299:493-506 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105526: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
? Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Gypsina sp. Carter 1877
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Amphisorus sp. Ehrenberg 1839
Amphisorus sp./ Sorites sp.
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Peneroplis sp. Montfort 1808
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
 Peyssonneliales - Rhodymeniophycidae
Peyssonnelia sp. Decaisne 1841