Aga Point, seaward facies (Holocene of Guam)

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

• low-diversity, Pocillopora-Acropora-rich, high-energy seaward facies

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
 Milleporina -
Millepora platyphylla Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1834 fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastrea echinata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
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
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pocillopora elegans Dana 1846 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"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
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral