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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Anthozoa | |
Cyphastrea serailia, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Cycloseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Leptoseris cf. hawaiiensis Vaughan 1907 stony coral | |
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 | |
? Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora cf. verrilli Vaughan 1907 stony coral
Montipora cf. foveolata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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 |