Okha- An area (Holocene of India)

Where: India (22.5° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 69.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Late-Middle Holocene (10,000-7,000 years)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; framestone and rudstone

• Presence of Acropora, Favia and coralline algae suggest an intertidal lagoonal to an off-shore sub tidal with above-wave-based marine high energy environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Arpita and R. L. Jain. 2014. Quaternary corals of Okha- An evidence of Sea level changes and environment of deposition. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 43(7) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165793: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora aspera, Montipora capricornis, Montipora angulata
Acropora aspera Dana 1846 stony coral
Montipora capricornis Veron 1985 stony coral
Montipora angulata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea curta
Montastraea curta stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia mathai
Favia mathai Vaughan 1918 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites pentagona, Favites complanata, Goniastrea retiformis, Platygyra pini, "Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa
Favites pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
"Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet.
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986