Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 166.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• lower unit: 24-15 ka, middle unit: 15-10 ka
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: G. Cabioch, F. W. Taylor, J. Recy, R. L. Edwards, S. C. Gray, G. Faure, G. S. Burr and T. Correge. 1998. Environmental and tectonic influence on growth and internal structure of a fringing reef at Tasmaloum (SW Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides island arc, SW Pacific). In G. Camoin, P. J. Davies (eds.), Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the pacific and Indian Oceans, IAS Special Publication 25:261-277 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97441: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Goniastrea cf. retiformis, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea cf. retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Montipora digitata, Acropora sp., Acropora ex gr. cytherea, Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus, "Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides
Montipora digitata Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. cytherea Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
"Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
Dermatolithon cf. tesselatum, Neogoniolithon cf. fosliei, "Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897 |