Also known as Reef 3959
Where: Vanuatu (16.0° S, 167.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 167.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 66-47 ka (U/Th)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Cabioch and L. K. Ayliffe. 2001. Raised coral terraces at Malakula, Vanuatu, southwest Pacific, indicate high sea level during marine isotope stage 3. Quaternary Research 56:357-365 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 89231: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Favites cf. complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra cf. daedalea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral |