Unda Well, 298.1-301.8 m, Great Bahama Bank: Messinian, Bahamas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Psammocora trinitatis Vaughan 1926
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris gardineri van der Horst 1921
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites macdonaldi Vaughan 1919
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863
see common names

Geography
Country:Bahamas
Coordinates: 24.6° North, 79.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° North, 77.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Unda Well Local bed:298.1-301.8 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: coral boundstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: deeper fore-reef
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
Also known as:Reef 2378
Database number:73645
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-25 02:33:12 Last modified:2007-06-25 05:33:12
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-25 02:33:12
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]