Unda Well, 374.3-376.7 m, Great Bahama Bank (Miocene of Bahamas)

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified rudstone and lithified floatstone

• sandy slope, intermediate or deeper depths
• coarse rud- to floatstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora monticulosa, Stylophora minor, Stylophora granulata
Stylophora monticulosa Vaughan and Hoffmeister 1925 stony coral
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris glabra
Leptoseris glabra Dinesen 1980 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites baracoaensis
Porites baracoaensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral