Where: New Caledonia (22.0° S, 165.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• units 7-9 (depth 47.60-10.35 mbct), age dating from samples from units 8 and 9, MIS 9 and 5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni, G. Cabioch, N. Thouveny, N. Frank, T. Sato and A. M. Semah. 2011. Revisiting the Quaternary development history of the western New Caledonian shelf system: from ramp to barrier reef. Marine Geology 280:57-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109502: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Globothalamea | |
Sphaerogypsina globula Reuss 1848 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Textularia sp., "Textularia cf. agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
"Textularia cf. agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica Guembel 1862 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp., Lithoporella melobesiodes, Hydrolithon reinboldii, Hydrolithon onkodes, Amphiroa sp., Lithophyllum cf. moluccense, Lithophyllum sp., Neogoniolithon cf. fosliei
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 | |
Anthozoa | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Acropora ex gr. selago Studer 1878 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. aspera Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Leptastrea cf. purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia cf. costata Duncan 1846 stony coral | |
Platygyra daedalea, Cyphastrea sp., Leptoria phrygia, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera, Favites sp., Favites cf. abdita
Platygyra daedalea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Favites cf. abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites ex gr. lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Porites ex gr. lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites ex gr. australiensis Vaughan 1918 stony coral |