Salt Rocks, Little Cayman (Pleistocene of Cayman Islands)

Also known as Reef 3981

Where: Cayman Islands (19.7° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Last Interglacial

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Stoddart. 1980. Geology and geomorphology of Little Cayman. Atoll Research Bulletin 241:11-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89553: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Meandrina sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral