Also known as Reef 3801
Where: Bahamas (24.0° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 74.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cockburn Town Member (Grotto Beach Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 132-119 ka
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. J. Greenstein, L. A. Harris, and H. A. Curran. 1998. Comparison of recent coral life and death assemblages to Pleistocene reef communities: implications for rapid faunal replacement on recent reefs. Carbonates and Evaporites 13(1):23-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88952: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora squarrosa fire coral
Millepora complanata fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Mycetophyllia lamarckiana, "Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa, "Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa
Mycetophyllia lamarckiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Diploria clivosa" = Pseudodiploria clivosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral |