Where: Belize (16.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 88.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Holocene thickness from 4.8 m to >21 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: E. Gischler and J. H. Hudson. 2004. Holocene development of the Belize Barrier Reef. Sedimentary Geology 164:223-236 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.08.2010, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora sp. fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Agaricia tenuifolia stony coral | |
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinometra viridis sea urchin |