Cape Range (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3937

Where: Western Australia, Australia (21.8° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 114.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 128-121 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. J. Greenstein and J. M. Pandolfi. 2008. Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14:513-528 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88574: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Goniastrea favulus Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier 1971 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. aspera Dana 1846 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 1" Link 1807 stony coral
massive Porites
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
stout branching Porites