Port Morant, Porites furcata biofacies: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
unclassified
Bivalva indet.
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
recombined as Orbicella annularis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa
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:176406
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-02-11 09:26:43 Last modified:2016-02-11 09:28:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-05-11 09:26:43
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]