Port Morant, Mixed Coral Biofacies: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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recombined as Orbicella annularis | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites furcata
Lamarck 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Jamaica | County: | St. Thomas |
Coordinates: | 17.9° North, 76.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 17.9° North, 76.3° 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 |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Upper Coastal | Formation: | Port Morant | ||
Stratigraphy comments: Sangamonian age |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 176405 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2016-02-11 09:26:07 | Last modified: | 2016-02-11 09:26:07 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2016-05-11 09:26:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
58029. | S. A. James. 2006. Coral Biodiversity and Zonation on a Pleistocene Reef, Southeastern Jamaica. Jamaica Clearing House Mechanism [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |