Unda Well, 71.9-78.9 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 floatstone and lithified packstone

• platform top/backreef, low to moderate energy, shoaling upward succession
• branching coral floatstone with peloidal-skeletal matrix and zones of very fine-grained skeletal 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 73652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora monticulosa, Stylophora granulata
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora saludensis, Acropora cervicornis
Acropora saludensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis, Porites portoricensis
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Porites portoricensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral