Where: Niue (19.0° S, 169.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 169.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• several terraces (20-65 m a.s.l.), ~120-700 ka (Nunn and Britton 2004)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Paulay
Primary reference: C. Wallace. 1999. Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106136: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Acropora cytherea, Acropora florida, Acropora clathrata, Acropora austera, Acropora humilis, Acropora globiceps, Acropora lutkeni, Acropora secale, Acropora samoensis, Acropora listeri, Acropora vaughani
Acropora cytherea Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora florida Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora clathrata Brook 1891 stony coral
Acropora austera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora globiceps Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora lutkeni Crossland 1952 stony coral
Acropora secale Studer 1878 stony coral
Acropora samoensis Brook 1891 stony coral
Acropora listeri Brook 1893 stony coral
Acropora vaughani Wells 1954 stony coral | |