West Bay Coast: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Cayman Islands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea cavernosa
(Linne 1767)
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common category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora cervicornis
(Lamarck 1816)
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abundant category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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abundant category | ||||||
recombined as Orbicella annularis | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Favia fragum
(Esper 1795)
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scarce category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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Dendrogyra cylindrus
(Ehrenberg 1834)
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scarce category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Isophyllastrea rigida
(Dana 1848)
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rare category | ||||||
recombined as Isophyllia rigida | |||||||
Diploria clivosa
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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scarce category | ||||||
recombined as Pseudodiploria clivosa | |||||||
Diploria strigosa
(Dana 1846)
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common category | ||||||
recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa | |||||||
Diploria labyrinthiformis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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scarce category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites astreoides
Lamarck 1816
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scarce category | ||||||
Porites porites
(Pallas 1766)
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abundant category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea radians
(Pallas 1766)
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rare category | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Agaricia agaricites
(Linnaeus 1758)
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scarce category | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Cayman Islands | State/province: | Grand Cayman |
Coordinates: | 19.4° North, 81.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 81.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
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) | |
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: | 103533 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-01-29 02:00:58 | Last modified: | 2011-01-28 09:00:58 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-01-29 02:00:58 |
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] |