Unda Well, 374.3-376.7 m, Great Bahama Bank: Tortonian, Bahamas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris glabra Dinesen 1980
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:Bahamas
Coordinates: 24.6° North, 79.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° North, 77.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Unda Well Local bed:374.3-376.7 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified rudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified floatstone
Lithology description: coarse rud- to floatstone
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: sandy slope, intermediate or deeper depths
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73641
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-25 01:43:42 Last modified:2007-06-25 04:58:32
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-25 01:43:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24698. A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]