Discovery Bay [Falmouth Fm]: Late Pleistocene, Jamaica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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| 11.0 %-specimens | ||||||||||
| 1.5 %-specimens | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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32.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora cervicornis
(Lamarck 1816)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Diploria strigosa
(Dana 1846)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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| abundant | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea cavernosa
(Linne 1767)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites furcata
Lamarck 1816
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| abundant | ||||||||||
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Ulvophyceae
- Bryopsidales
- Halimedaceae
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Halimeda sp.
Lamouroux 1812
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22.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Foraminifera indet.
Eichwald 1830
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2.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Homotrematidae
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| 1.8 %-specimens | ||||||||||
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Corallinophycidae
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Corallinaceae indet.
Lamouroux 1816
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24.9 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Jamaica |
| Coordinates: | 18.5° North, 77.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified packstone |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
| Geology comments: back-reef | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | original aragonite,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: line-transecting techniques, standard point-counting techniques | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3800 | ||
| Database number: | 80611 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-29 09:12:46 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27122. | S. K. Boss and W. D. Liddell. 1987. Back-reef and Fore-reef Analogs in the Pleistocene of North Jamaica: Implications for Facies Recognition and Sediment Flux in Fossil reefs. Palaios 2:219-228 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] |