Rio Bueno Harbour [Falmouth Fm]: Late Pleistocene, Jamaica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
10.7 %-specimens
2.8 %-specimens
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
Anthozoa
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
57 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck 1816)
Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria strigosa (Dana 1846)
Perry 2000
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa (Linne 1767)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
1.1 %-specimens
unclassified
Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830
0.3 %-specimens
Homotrematidae
4.4 %-specimens
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
23.7 %-specimens
unclassified
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932
Perry 2000
Perry 2000
see common names

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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Coastal Formation:Falmouth
Stratigraphy comments: 125,000 y.b.p.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified grainstone
Lithology description: constituent composition dominated by sand-sized coral
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: fore-reef, macrofauna exhibits a higher coral diversity
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:80612
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Girndt
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-29 09:28:30 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]

Secondary references:

27223 C. T. Perry. 2000. Macroboring of Pleistocene Coral Communities, Falmouth Formation, Jamaica. Palaios 15:483-491 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/M. Uhen]