Daliconi FLV1.1, Vanua Balevu (Miocene of Fiji)
Where: Fiji (17.2° S, 179.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 179.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daliconi Member (Tokelau Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; bindstone
• intermediate to lower reef slope
• coralgal bindstone in medium-grained sediment with 20-40% siliciclastic component and numerous coral fragments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124828: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
Acropora "sp. B" Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora "sp. A" Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Pocillopora "sp. A" Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Caulastrea "n. sp. A"" = Caulastrea Dana 1846 stony coral
"Caulastraea cummingae n. sp." = Caulastrea stony coral
Favites "sp. B" Link 1807 stony coral | |
Leptastrea "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Turbinaria "n. sp. A" Oken 1815 stony coral
Turbinaria jacksoni n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral | |
Leptoseris "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Leptoseris "sp. B" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Porites "sp. A" Link 1807 stony coral
Porites "sp. B" Link 1807 stony coral
Porites cf. baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral |