Clino Well, 140.5-147.5 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pliocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 705

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 78.6° 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: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified grainstone

• fore-reef, moderate energy
• bafflestone with branching corals in high-diversity skeletal grainstone matrix

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 73661: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria crassa" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Thysanus excentricus Duncan 1863 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea portoricensis Coryell 1929 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral