Paul Bodden Quarry A: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Cayman Islands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia natans (Houttuyn 1772)
rare category
Manicina areolata (Linnaeus 1758)
scarce category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum (Esper 1795)
scarce category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
scarce category
recombined as Orbicella annularis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites (Pallas 1766)
abundant category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians (Pallas 1766)
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia fragilis Dana 1846
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
scarce category
see common names

Geography
Country:Cayman Islands State/province:Grand Cayman
Coordinates: 19.3° North, 81.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.3° North, 81.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:121 ± 6 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ironshore
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: dated at 121 +- 6 ka (Woodroffe et al. 1983)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: floatstone
Lithology description: coral floatstone (coral facies A); Porites porites-Manicina areolata association
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: patch reef, < 10 m in diameter, in the patch reef zone in the western part of the lagoon
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3752
Database number:103517
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-28 23:49:38 Last modified:2011-01-28 06:49:38
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-01-28 23:49:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27181. I. G. Hunter and B. Jones. 1996. Coral associations of the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman. Coral Reefs 15(4):249-267 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]