Also known as Reef 3800
Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falmouth Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 125,000 y.b.p.
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and poorly lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: line-transecting techniques, standard point-counting techniques
Primary reference: S. K. Boss and W. D. Liddell. 1987. Back-reef and Fore-reef Analogs in the Pleistocene of North Jamaica: Implications for Facies Recognition and Sediment Flux in Fossil reefs. Palaios 2:219-228 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 29.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Entobia convoluta, Entobia glomerata, Entobia geometrica, Entobia mammillata, Entobia megastoma, Entobia ovula, Entobia ichnospecies
Entobia convoluta demosponge
Entobia glomerata demosponge
Entobia geometrica demosponge
Entobia mammillata demosponge
Entobia megastoma demosponge
Entobia ovula demosponge
Entobia ichnospecies demosponge | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932
Gastrochaenolites torpedo Kelly and Bromley 1984 |