Mariana Limestone, Loc. GMH-3 (Pleistocene of Guam)

Where: Guam (13.5° N, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 145.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mariana Limestone Member, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• Reef and fore-reef facies

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. Johnson. 1964. Fossil and recent calcareous algae from Guam. Geological survey professional paper 403-G [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium funafutiense" = Lithothamnion
Porolithon craspedium Foslie 1909