Buck Island Bar, BB 2 (Holocene of Virgin Islands, U.S.)

Where: Virgin Islands, U.S. (17.8° N, 64.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 64.6° W)

• 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; limestone

• 8 m thick Holocene reef sequence in water depths from 5.18 to 13.18 m

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: I. G. Macintyre and W. H. Adey. 1990. Buck Island Bar, St. Croix, USVI: a reef that cannot catch up with sea level. Atoll Research Bulletin 336:1-7 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97624: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp.
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites, Porites astreoides
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp., Colpophyllia natans
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Colpophyllia natans Houttuyn 1772 stony coral