Bikini island (Holocene of Marshall Islands)
Where: Marshall Islands (11.6° N, 165.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 166.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithology not reported
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. H. Johnson. 1954. Bikini and nearby atolls, Part 4. Paleontology: Fossil calcareous algae from Bikini atoll. United States Geological Survey professional paper 260-M 537-546 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/E. Ito]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150331: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.09.2013
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Taxonomic list
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| Florideophyceae | |
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes, Porolithon gardineri, Porolithon marshallense, Porolithon aequinoctiale, Porolithon craspedium
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Porolithon craspedium Foslie 1909 | |