Bonah River II, Huon Peninsula (Holocene of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Morobe, Papua New Guinea (6.2° S, 147.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 147.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• samples after mass-mortality event dated as ca. 8500 cal. YBP

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• upper fore-reef slope

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Pandolfi, A. W. Tudhope, G. Burr, J. Chappell, E. Edinger, M. Frey, R. Steneck, C. Sharma, A. Yeates, M. Jennions, H. Lescinsky and A. Newton. 2006. Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea. Geology 34(11):949-952 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97438: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea teres" = Talostolida teres, "Cypraea isabella" = Luria isabella, "Cypraea childreni" = Ipsa childreni, "Cypraea nucleus" = Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus
"Cypraea teres" = Talostolida teres Gmelin 1791 cowry
"Cypraea isabella" = Luria isabella Linnaeus 1758 Isabell cowry
"Cypraea childreni" = Ipsa childreni Gray 1825 cowry
"Cypraea nucleus" = Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
"Cypraea bulla" = Prionovolva bulla
"Cypraea bulla" = Prionovolva bulla Adams-Reeve 1848 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene testudinaria Link 1807 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus balteatus cone shell
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Turbo petholatus" = Turbo (Turbo) petholatus, "Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
"Turbo petholatus" = Turbo (Turbo) petholatus Linnaeus 1758 snail
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora "sp. 1" Gray 1821 snail
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis radula Linnaeus 1758 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Helioporacea -