Unda Well, 50.0-63.7 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 3602

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lucayan Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• platform top, moderate to high energy, shoaling upward in one unit
• alterations of 3 lithofacies: peloidal, skeletal peloidal packstone to grainstone, very coarse skeletal floatstone

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 73654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia amaranthus
Colpophyllia amaranthus Müller 1775 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastraea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastraea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea franksi
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral