Amity, North Stradbroke Island (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.4° S, 153.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 153.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; muddy sandstone and limestone

• sheltered environment but open to the ocean without wide fluctuations in salinity
• corals are enclosed in muddy sediments, no evidence of cemented reef rock

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Pickett, C. H. Thompson, R. A. Kelley and D. Roman. 1985. Evidence of high sea level during isotope stage 5c in Queensland, Australia. Quaternary Research 24:103-114 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97666: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Symphyllia cf. recta Dana 1846 stony coral
Symphyllia cf. valenciennesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
"Goniastrea aspera" = Coelastrea aspera Verrill 1866 stony coral
Favites halicora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
"Favia cf. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Favites bennettae" = Oulophyllia bennettae Veron and Pichon 1977 stony coral
Oulophyllia crispa Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria radicalis Bernard 1896 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia fungites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Herpolitha limax Esper 1797 stony coral
Heliofungia actiniformis Quoi and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona varians Verrill 1864 stony coral
Pavona decussata Dana 1846 stony coral
Pachyseris rugosa Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora cf. cuneata" = Isopora cuneata Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora microphthalma Verrill 1869 stony coral
Acropora millepora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Acropora cf. robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
"Acropora formosa" = Acropora muricata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Acropora valida Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora cf. longicyathus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Acropora aspera Dana 1846 stony coral
Montipora "sp. A" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp. fire coral