Unda Well, 90.2-104.2 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pliocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 705

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• intermediate fore-reef
• boundstone in high-diversity skeletal packstone matrix with zones of very fine-grained packstone

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 73649: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora saludensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia -
Gardineroseris planulata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites waylandi Foster 1986 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Colpophyllia breviserialis" = Colpophyllia natans, Diploria labyrinthiformis
"Colpophyllia breviserialis" = Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Placocyathus variabilis Duncan 1864 stony coral