Canada Honda Reef, massive coral subzone: Holocene, Dominican Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
3.1 %-specimens
Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas 1766)
1 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea faveolata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
11.5 %-specimens
recombined as Orbicella faveolata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia natans (Houttuyn 1772)
8.7 %-specimens
Manicina areolata (Linnaeus 1758)
0.2 %-specimens
Scolymia sp. Haime 1852
0.1 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina diffusa Lamarck 1816
0.9 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
0.4 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia intersepta (Esper 1795)
2.9 %-specimens
Madracis sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
0.8 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Helioseris cucullata (Ellis and Solander 1786)
0.3 %-specimens
recombined as Leptoseris cucullata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites (Pallas 1766)
0.1 %-specimens
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
0.1 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
69.7 %-specimens
Siderastrea radians (Pallas 1766)
0.4 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 18.5° North, 71.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.5° North, 71.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:9256 ± 137 to 6736.5 ± 94.5 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: massive coral subzone of the Siderastrea siderea zone in the deeper parts of the reef
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Lithology description: deeper coral assemblage, 32-22 m depth
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: environment of high sedimentation
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97553
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-08-09 01:55:10 Last modified:2010-08-09 04:55:10
Access level:the public Released:2010-08-09 01:55:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33286. D. N. Cuevas, C. E. Sherman, W. Ramirez and D. K. Hubbard. 2009. Coral growth rates from the Holocene Canada Honda fossil reef, southwestern Dominican Republic: comparisons with modern counterparts in high sedimentation settings. Caribbean Journal of Science 45(1):94-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]