Also known as Reef 3983
Where: Tahiti, French Polynesia (17.8° S, 149.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 149.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• subunit P9 (15.54 m thick) of the 70-m-thick (33.22–101.93 m below
•seafloor [mbsf]; 92.85–161.56 mbsl) older Pleistocene unit (unit II of Camoin 2007), age dating from core 30R (141.98 mbsl)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and floatstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: Y. Iryu, Y. Takahashi, K. Fujita, G. Camoin, G. Cabioch, H. Matsuda, T. Sato, K. Sugihara, J. M. Webster and H. Westphal. 2010. Sealevel history recorded in the Pleistocene carbonate sequence in IODP Hole 310-M0005D, off Tahiti. Island Arc 19:690-706 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 127254: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Florideophyceae | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Neogoniolithon megalocystum, Neogoniolithon myriocarpum, Lithophyllum insipidum, Lithophyllum tamiense, "Lithophyllum prototypum" = Titanoderma prototypum, Hydrolithon breviclavium, Hydrolithon samoense, Hydrolithon sp., Hydrolithon onkodes, Pneophyllum conicum, Lithoporella melobesioides
"Lithophyllum prototypum" = Titanoderma prototypum Foslie 1897
Hydrolithon sp. Foslie 1909
Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Pneophyllum conicum Dawson 1960
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909 | |
Anthozoa | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |