Pleistocene Reef, Red Sea,reef flat (Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia)

Also known as Reef 3805

Where: Saudi Arabia (27.7° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 35.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

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

• Below its cemented surfaces, corallinacean grainstones of framestones occur, the bindstones of the reef flat itself are formed by laminar growing red algea and foraminifera

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W.-C. Dullo. 1990. Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia). Facies 22:1-46 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80958: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 23.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Miniacinna sp.
frequent
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrema sp.
frequent
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral
rare
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Echinopora gemmacea Lamarck 1816 stony coral
rare
Goniastrea pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
rare
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
very rare
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
rare
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
rare
Favites flexuosa Dana 1846 stony coral
very rare
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
very rare
"Favia cf. laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
very rare
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
rare
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
rare
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
rare
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia granulosa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
very rare
Fungia concinna Verrill 1864 stony coral
very rare
Fungia scutaria Lamarck 1801 stony coral
common
"Fungia repanda" = Lithophyllon repanda Dana 1846 stony coral
rare
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona cactus Forskal 1775 stony coral
very rare
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
very rare
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral
very rare
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
very rare
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora pharaonis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
very rare
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus maximus Sowerby 1825 worm shell