Also known as Reef 3818
Where: Maldives (4.3° N, 73.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 73.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• 137 and 114 kyr BP, ca. 135 kyr BP during marine isotope stage 5e
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: E. Gischler, J. H. Hudson, and A. Pisera. 2008. Late Quaternary reef growth and sea level in the Maldives (Indian Ocean). Marine Geology 250(1-2):104-113 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 25.08.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause and Keenan Hassell
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
? Acropora ex gr. robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Echinophyllia ? sp. Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
Dawsoniolithon conicum Humblet et al. 2019 | |
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes, Porolithon gardineri, Harveylithon ex gr. munitum, Amphiroa sp., "Lithophyllum ex gr. pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum, Lithophyllum ex gr. cuneatum, Lithophyllum sp.
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Harveylithon ex gr. munitum Foslie and Howe 1906
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
"Lithophyllum ex gr. pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Soritidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |