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

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Lophelia prolifera" = Lophelia pertusa
"Lophelia prolifera" = Lophelia pertusa Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Thecostraca
 Cirripedia -
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -