Christ Church, 195 ka: Middle Pleistocene, Barbados

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea faveolata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
0.48 %-area
recombined as Orbicella faveolata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians (Pallas 1766)
0.1 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
86.67 %-area
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
12.75 %-area
see common names

Geography
Country:Barbados
Coordinates: 13.1° North, 59.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.1° North, 59.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Age estimate:195 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Lithology description: Acropora palmata zone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: transect 40 m long, transects were normally separated from each other by 500-1000 m
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3820
Database number:102456
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-15 00:20:37 Last modified:2011-01-27 10:33:14
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-01-15 00:20:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34770. J. M. Pandolfi and J. B. C. Jackson. 2006. Ecological persistence interrupted in Caribbean coral reefs. Ecology Letters 9:818-826 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]