Also known as Reef 4009
Where: New Caledonia (21.6° S, 167.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 167.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• terrace XIII 4-4.5 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 90054: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral | |
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Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
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Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Favites abdita, "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, Leptoria cf. phrygia, "Oulophyllia aspera" = Oulophyllia crispa
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Leptoria cf. phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Oulophyllia aspera" = Oulophyllia crispa Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Pavona clavus Dana 1846 stony coral | |