Henderson Island, reef flat: Middle Pleistocene, Pitcairn

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea informal sp. 1 (Blainville 1830)
original and current combination Montastraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Porites cf. mordax Dana 1846
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia scutaria Lamarck 1801
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Coscinaraea columna (Dana 1846)
original and current combination Psammocora columna
Psammocora ? obtusangula (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona informal sp. 1 Lamarck 1801
Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner 1905)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea cf. versipora (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816
Pocillopora informal sp. 1 Lamarck 1816
Pocillopora eydouxi Edwards and Haime 1860
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cf. palifera (Lamarck 1816)
Pandolfi 1995
recombined as Isopora palifera
Acropora sp. Oken 1815
Acropora cf. gemmifera (Brook 1892)
Pandolfi 1995
Astreopora moretonensis Veron and Wallace 1984
see common names

Geography
Country:Pitcairn
Coordinates: 24.4° South, 128.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.4° South, 128.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: unit 2-3: 340-300 ky, unit 4: 285-275 ky (Pandolfi 1995)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: reef flat
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3906
Database number:85105
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-27 06:43:55 Last modified:2009-01-08 16:47:13
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28601. T. Spencer and G. Paulay. 1989. Geology and geomorphology of Henderson Island. Atoll Research Bulletin 323:1-50 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

28602 J. M. Pandolfi. 1995. Geomorphology of the uplifted Pleistocene atoll at Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 56:63-77 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]