Leeward reef crest, South 1: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Netherlands Antilles

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
15.39 %-area
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
0.31 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians (Pallas 1766)
0.83 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia natans (Houttuyn 1772)
0.73 %-area
Diploria labyrinthiformis (Linnaeus 1758)
1.56 %-area
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
24 %-area
recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa
Diploria clivosa (Ellis and Solander 1786)
7.05 %-area
recombined as Pseudodiploria clivosa
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea informal sp. 2 (Blainville 1830)
36.23 %-area
organ-pipe Montastrea
    = Montastrea nancyi Pandolfi 2007
Pandolfi 2007
recombined as Orbicella nancyi
Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
8.44 %-area
recombined as Orbicella annularis
Montastrea faveolata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
3.54 %-area
recombined as Orbicella faveolata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea informal sp. 1 (Blainville 1830)
1.63 %-area
original and current combination Montastraea
sheet Montastrea
Montastrea informal sp. 3 (Blainville 1830)
0.28 %-area
original and current combination Montastraea
Montastrea annularis - ? species ID
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands Antilles State/province:Curacao
Coordinates: 12.1° North, 69.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.1° North, 69.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:125 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hato
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: top 2 m of the 6-m-thick Hato Unit of the Lower Terrace
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Lithology description: leeward reef crest
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: transects were 40 m long and separated from each other by 500-1000 m
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3751
Database number:102707
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-19 00:36:59 Last modified:2011-01-18 07:36:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-01-19 00:36:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34798. J. M. Pandolfi. 2001. Community structure of Pleistocene coral reefs of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Ecological Monographs 71(1):49-67 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

29698 J. M. Pandolfi. 2007. A new, extinct Pleistocene reef coral from the Montastraea "annularis" species complex. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):472-482 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]