Oil Tanks: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Cayman Islands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora palmata
(Lamarck 1816)
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abundant category | ||||||
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Acropora cervicornis
(Lamarck 1816)
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abundant category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea radians
(Pallas 1766)
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rare category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites porites
(Pallas 1766)
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common category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea cavernosa
(Linne 1767)
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scarce category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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abundant category | ||||||
| recombined as Orbicella annularis | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Manicina areolata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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scarce category | ||||||
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Isophyllastrea rigida
(Dana 1848)
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rare category | ||||||
| recombined as Isophyllia rigida | |||||||
| 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: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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: | 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: | "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: coral boundstone (coral facies B); Montastrea annularis-Isophyllastrea rigida association | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: reef tract, protected areas behind the reef crest | |
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: | 103529 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-29 01:37:19 | Last modified: | 2011-01-28 08:37:19 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-01-29 01:37:19 |
| 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] |