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 | |
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas
"Strombus gigas" = Lobatus gigas Linnaeus 1758 true conch | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
Meandrina sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Diploria labyrinthiformis, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral |