Unda Well, 298.1-301.8 m, Great Bahama Bank (Miocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 2378

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 77.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• deeper fore-reef
• coral boundstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora minor
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites macdonaldi
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Psammocora trinitatis
Psammocora trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris gardineri
Leptoseris gardineri van der Horst 1921 stony coral