Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.2° S, 177.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 177.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Boat Cove Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• upper formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; volcaniclastic sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85090: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gymnolaemata | |
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Celleporina sp. Gray 1848 | |
| Sedentaria | |
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Serpulidae "indet. B" Rafinesque 1835
? Spirobranchus sp. Blainville 1818 | |
| Cirripedia | |
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Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
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Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Favites flexuosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Pavona minuta Wells 1954 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
| Florideophyceae | |
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Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |