Where: Morobe, Papua New Guinea (6.1° S, 147.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 147.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: Y. Ota and J. Chappell. 1999. Holocene sea-level rise and coral reef growth on a tectonically rising coast, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary International 55:51-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97429: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera, Montipora sp.
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Euphyllia sp. Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |