Ironshore Formation, British West Indies (Pleistocene of Cayman Islands)
Also known as Reef 3752
Where: Cayman Islands (19.3° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 81.2° W)
When: Ironshore Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. J. Hills and B. Jones. 2000. Peyssonnelid Rhodoliths from the Late Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. Palaios 15:212-224 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80823: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 13.05.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Florideophyceae | |
Neogoniolithon sp., Lithoporella sp., Hydrolithon reinboldii, Lithophyllum sp., Porolithon sp., "Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |