SB1-A, Sandy Bay, Cape Range: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900
9.52 %-area
Favia sp. Oken 1815
9.76 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
0.6 %-area
Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier 1971
7.98 %-area
Goniastrea favulus (Dana 1846)
3.81 %-area
Favites sp. Link 1807
35.36 %-area
? Favites sp. Link 1807
1.19 %-area
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
22.02 %-area
recombined as Isopora palifera
Acropora sp. Oken 1815
5.36 %-area
Acropora gemmifera (Brook 1892)
2.98 %-area
Acropora ex gr. digitifera (Dana 1846)
1.43 %-area
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 22.2° South, 113.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.2° South, 113.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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:128 to 121 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
Metadata
Database number:103068
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-22 00:59:27 Last modified:2011-01-21 07:59:27
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-01-22 00:59:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29710. B. J. Greenstein and J. M. Pandolfi. 2008. Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14:513-528 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]