Kwambu, Huon Peninsula (Holocene of Papua New Guinea)

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
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera, Montipora sp.
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Euphyllia sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral