Unda Well, 104.2-108.2 m, Great Bahama Bank: Late/Upper Pliocene, Bahamas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Diploria labyrinthiformis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Caulastraea portoricensis
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= Caulastrea portoricensis
Coryell 1929
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
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Montastraea limbata
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= Montastrea limbata
Duncan 1863
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Kiessling et al. 2011 | ||||||
| recombined as Orbicella limbata | |||||||
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Trachyphyllia bilobata
(Duncan 1863)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Siderastreidae
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Siderastrea siderea
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Undaria crassa
(Verrill 1901)
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| synonym of Agaricia agaricites | |||||||
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Leptoseris glabra
Dinesen 1980
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Pavona (Pseudocolumnastraea) informal sp. A
Lamarck 1801
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites portoricensis
(Vaughan 1919)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Stephanocoenia duncani
Foster 1987
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora saludensis
Vaughan 1919
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Stylophora granulata
Duncan 1864
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Placocyathus variabilis
Duncan 1864
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Bahamas |
| Coordinates: | 24.6° North, 79.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.7° North, 78.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Unda Well | Local bed: | 104.2-108.2 m |
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified packstone |
| Lithology description: boundstone in fine high-diversity skeletal packstone matrix | |
| 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 705 | ||
| Database number: | 73648 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-25 03:03:37 | Last modified: | 2007-07-24 08:56:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-25 03:03:37 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 35169 | W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |