Unda Well, 38.7-50.0 m, Great Bahama Bank: Early Pleistocene, Bahamas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastraea annularis (Ellis and Solander 1876)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Undaria agaricites (Linnaeus 1758)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Bahamas
Coordinates: 24.6° North, 79.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lucayan
Local section:Unda Well Local bed:38.7-50.0 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified wackestone
Lithology description: very fine-grained packstones to wackestones
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: platform top/?fore-reef, low energy
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3602
Database number:73655
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-25 04:40:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-25 04:40:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
24698. A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]