Cockburn Town, San Salvador Island (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

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
 Milleporina -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
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
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral