Wodejebato Guyot, ODP Leg 144-874, 144-877 (Cretaceous to of Marshall Islands)

Also known as Reef 1310

Where: Marshall Islands (12.0° N, 164.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 156.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• subunit IIC (core 144-874B-5R to -9R, core 144-877A-4R to -11R) and subunit IIA 144-874B-1R-1 to -2R-1, 144-877A-1R)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Lower interval: algal-rudist grainstones/rudstones, with a few packstone layers and algal-coral boundstone. Upper interval: skeletal grainstones/rudstones with few algal-octocoral-rudist boundstones.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. F. Camoin, A. A. Vanneau, D. D. Bergersen, M. Colonna, P. Ebren, P. Enos, and J. G. Ogg. 1995. Anatomy and evolution of the inner perimeter ridge (sites 874 and 877) of a Campanian-Maastrichtian atoll-like structure (Wodejebato Guyot, Marshall Islands). in J. A. Haggerty, I. Premoli Silva, F. Rack and M. K. McNutt, eds., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 144:271-294 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74534: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.08.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Coralliochama sp. White 1885 rudist
Coralliochama orcutti White 1885 rudist
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Antillocaprinidae
Antillocaprina sp. Trechmann 1924 rudist
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp. demosponge
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
 Dasycladales -
Terquemella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1913
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium sp. Yabe and Toyama 1928
Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
Sulcoperculina sp. Thalmann 1939
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910