Tarpon Springs Estates (Pleistocene of Cayman Islands)

Also known as Reef 3752

Where: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (19.3° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ironshore Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• dated as 121 +- 6 ka (Woodroffe et al. 1983)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; wackestone

• lagoon interior
• skeletal wackestone to packstone (bivalve facies A); Porites divaricata association

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. G. Hunter and B. Jones. 1996. Coral associations of the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman. Coral Reefs 15(4):249-267 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80857: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 16.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina areolata
Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral