Lord Howe Island (Holocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.5° S, 159.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 159.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• branching Acropora cf. formosa in the lower part; algal-cemented A. palifera/Goniastrea in the upper part

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. M. Kennedy and C. D. Woodroffe. 2000. Holocene lagoonal sedimentation at the latitudinal limits of reef growth, Lord Howe Island, Tasman Sea. Marine Geology 169:287-304 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97408: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2010, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bryopsidophyceae
 Caulerpales - Caulerpaceae
Caulerpa racemosa
Caulerpa racemosa Forsskal 1775
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Chlorodesmis sp.
Chlorodesmis sp. Harvey and Bailey 1841
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Peyssonnelia sp.
Peyssonnelia sp. Decaisne 1841
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea sp.
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora cf. formosa" = Acropora muricata, "Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera, Isopora cuneata
"Acropora cf. formosa" = Acropora muricata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Isopora cuneata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Alcyonacea - Nephtheidae
Dendronephthya sp.
Dendronephthya sp. Kuekenthal 1905