DSDP site 76, Atoll Manihi (Pliocene of French Polynesia)

Where: French Polynesia (14.1° S, 145.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 142.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• 27 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• source of the debris beds probably shallow water reef
• allochthonous carbonate debris beds (packstones-grainstones with foraminiferans, corals, algae and molluscs) intercalated in pelagic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1976. Etude des coraux fossiles recolte dans le forage DSDP 76 en mer profonde dans les Tuamotu de Nord [Study of fossil corals taken from the Deep Sea Drilling Project 76 borehole in the deep sea off the northern Tuamotu Islands]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 18(5):1307-1313 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84951: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Hydrozoa
  - Milleporidae
Milleporidae indet.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea serailia, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Cycloseris sp.
Cycloseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp., Leptoseris cf. hawaiiensis
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Leptoseris cf. hawaiiensis Vaughan 1907 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Poritidae indet., Porites sp., Porites mordax, Porites cf. lobata
Poritidae indet. Gray 1840 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites mordax Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites cf. lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
? Astrocoenia sp.
? Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp., Montipora cf. verrilli, Montipora cf. foveolata
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora cf. verrilli Vaughan 1907 stony coral
Montipora cf. foveolata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp., Stylophora paumotensis n. sp., Pocillopora sp., Pocillopora cf. damicornis
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
Stylophora paumotensis n. sp. Chevalier 1976 stony coral
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pocillopora cf. damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral