Hale O Lono, Molokai (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Hawaii (21.1° N, 157.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° N, 157.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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

• branching coral framestone/bafflestone, mixed skeletal rudstone, encrusting coral-algal bindstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. S. Engels, C. H. Fletcher, M. E. Field, C. D. Storlazzi, E. E. Grossman, J. J. B. Rooney, C. L. Conger and C. Glenn. 2004. Holocene reef accretion: southwest Molokai, Hawaii, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research 74(2):255-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97451: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Porolithon gardineri, Hydrolithon onkodes
Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp., Porites compressa
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites compressa Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
"Pocillopora meandrina" = Pocillopora verrucosa
"Pocillopora meandrina" = Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Montipora patula" = Montipora hispida, Montipora capitata, Montipora verrucosa
"Montipora patula" = Montipora hispida Dana 1846 stony coral
Montipora capitata Dana 1846 stony coral
Montipora verrucosa Lamarck 1816 stony coral
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.