Also known as Reef 3978

Where: New Caledonia (22.5° S, 166.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 166.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• unit 10: 14-37 m, 128-110 ka, MIS 5

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. Cabioch, L. Montaggioni, N. Thouveny, N. Frank, T. Sato, V. Chazottes, H. Dalamasso, C. Payri, M. Pichon and A. M. Semah. 2008. The chronology and structure of the western New Caledonian barrier reef tracts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 268:91-105 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.05.2009

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