Unda Well, 155.8-162.5 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pliocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 705

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• sandy slope
• coarse skeletal packstone to grainstone

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 73647: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora minor Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora johnsoni Gane 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis
"Placocyathus trinitatis" = Antillocyathus trinitatis Vaughan 1926 stony coral