Isla de Providencia: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
49.51 %-area
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
3.81 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
0.78 %-area
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
0.65 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
0.42 %-area
recombined as Orbicella annularis
Montastrea informal sp. 2 (Blainville 1830)
17 %-area
organ-pipe Montastrea
    = Montastrea nancyi Pandolfi 2007
Pandolfi 2007
recombined as Orbicella nancyi
Montastrea faveolata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
12.02 %-area
recombined as Orbicella faveolata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
15.8 %-area
recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 13.3° North, 81.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.3° North, 81.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:125 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
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: transect is 40 m long; this transect was not included in the data analysis
Metadata
Database number:102792
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-20 03:06:50 Last modified:2011-01-19 10:06:50
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-01-20 03:06:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34809. J. M. Pandolfi and J. B. C. Jackson. 2007. Broad-scale patterns in Pleistocene coral reef communities from the Caribbean: implications for ecology and management. In R. B. Aronson (ed.), Geological approaches to coral reef ecology. Ecological Studies 192:201-236 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/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]