Also known as Reef 4009
Where: New Caledonia (21.5° S, 167.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 167.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• terrace XIII 3-4 m above sea level, questionable age of the terraces 2-5 m above sea level: 98-90 ka (Th/U) (after Bernat 1976 reported in Marshall and Launay 1978)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1968. Les Madreporaires fossiles de Mare [The fossil corals from Mare]. Expedition Francaise sur les recifs coralliens de la Nouvelle Caledonie 3:85-158 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90050: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora cf. intricata fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
"Pavona (Polyastra) planulata" = Gardineroseris planulata
"Pavona (Polyastra) planulata" = Gardineroseris planulata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites cf. lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
"Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa, "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, Favites sp., "Favites virens" = Favites abdita, Platygyra mareensis n. sp., Cyphastrea serailia, Goniastrea sp., Goniastrea cf. pectinata
"Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
"Favites virens" = Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra mareensis n. sp. Chevalier 1968 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea cf. pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Turbinaria cf. crater Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
"Leptastrea ehrenbergana" = Leptastrea purpurea
"Leptastrea ehrenbergana" = Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral |