Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 166.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ionian (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Old age estimate: 25,280 ± 400 yrs. B.P. The same species of coral from the overlying deposit of Kere 1 gave an age of 133 +/- 5.5 ka. These reliable benchmarks suggest that the Kere sequence was deposited during the warmer Marine Isotope Stages MIS 5
•(Kere 1).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified sandstone and unlithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Material collected by Ladd
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1984. Notes on Indo-Pacific Scleractinian Corals. Part 10. Late Pleistocene ahermatypic corals from Vanuatu. Pacific Science 38(3):205-219 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84453: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Distichopora nitida Verrill 1864 lace coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars 1872 stony coral
Fungiacyathus cf. stephanus Alcock 1893 stony coral | |
"Diaseris distorta" = Cycloseris distorta
| |
Madrepora porcellana Moseley 1881 stony coral Several more or less fragmentary pieces of small colonies
| |
Caryophyllia scobinosa Alcock 1902 stony coral
Acanthocyathus grayi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Flabellum paripavoninum" = Truncatoflabellum martensii, "Flabellum vanuatu n. sp." = Truncatoflabellum vanuatu
"Flabellum paripavoninum" = Truncatoflabellum martensii Studer 1878 stony coral
"Flabellum vanuatu n. sp." = Truncatoflabellum vanuatu Wells 1984 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia gigas v.d. Horst 1922 stony coral |