Ambergris Cay, barrier-reef: Late Pleistocene, Belize
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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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 sp.
Link 1807
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Agaricia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora palmata
(Lamarck 1816)
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Acropora cervicornis
(Lamarck 1816)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Meandrinidae
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= Dichocoenia stokesi
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea annularis
(Ellis and Solander 1876)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Diploria sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus gigas
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellinidae indet.
Blainville 1814
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Apolymetis sp.
Salisbury 1929
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Macoma sp.
Leach 1819
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucinidae indet.
Fleming 1828
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Foraminiferida
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Foraminiferida indet.
(Eichwald 1830)
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Homotrematidae
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Ulvophyceae
- Bryopsidales
- Halimedaceae
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Halimeda sp.
Lamouroux 1812
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Geography
| Country: | Belize |
| Coordinates: | 18.1° North, 87.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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
| Formation: | Ambergris Cay Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: OIS 5e, Sangamon | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | packstone |
| Secondary lithology: | grainstone |
| Lithology description: gravelly packstone and grainstone | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: barrier reef, max. thickness 0.6 m | |
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 3943 | ||
| Database number: | 88824 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-22 01:02:34 | 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:
| 29784. | S. J. Mazzullo. 2006. Late Pliocene to Holocene platform evolution in northern Belize, and comparison with coeval deposits in southern Belize and the Bahamas. Sedimentology 53:1015-1047 [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] |