Where: Guam (13.2° N, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 144.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Merizo Formation, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• age after Kayanne 1993
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. G. Siegrist and R. H. Randall. 1985. Community structure and petrography of an emergent Holocene reef limestone on Guam. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress 6:563-568 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97444: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.07.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora platyphylla Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1834 fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Acanthastrea echinata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Montipora sp., Montipora foveolata, Acropora sp., "Acropora irregularis" = Acropora abrotanoides, Acropora monticulosa, Acropora tenuis
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora foveolata Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora irregularis" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora monticulosa Brüggemann 1879 stony coral
Acropora tenuis Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Pocillopora setchelli stony coral
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pocillopora elegans Dana 1846 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Dipsastraea sp., "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, Oulophyllia sp., Platygyra pini, Hydnophora microconos, Goniastrea retiformis, "Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera, Leptoria phrygia
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Dipsastraea sp. de Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Oulophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
Hydnophora microconos Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral |