Great Meteor Seamount, 1685 meters, station number A180-25 (Pleistocene of North Atlantic)
Where: North Atlantic (32.4° N, 27.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 27.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; white limestone
• disc of white limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1959. Deep Sea Corals Collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 1 Atlantic Corals. American Museum of natural history (1965) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 146271: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.06.2013
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Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
"Lophelia prolifera" = Lophelia pertusa
"Lophelia prolifera" = Lophelia pertusa Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Thecostraca | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram |