La Saline, FRE (Holocene of Reunion)

Where: Reunion (21.1° S, 55.2° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Holocene reef sequence is 17.70 m thick, age of the deepest dated coral (13.65 m.b.r.s.l.): 8000+/-300 YBP

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• outer slope or inner reef flat, depths < 15 m
• branching Acropora facies dominated by rubble

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: G. F. Camoin, L. F. Montaggioni, and C. J. R. Braithwaite. 2004. Late glacial to post glacial sea levels in the western Indian Ocean. Marine Geology 206:119-146 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.07.2010, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora muricata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Acropora pharaonis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Acropora tenuis Dana 1846 stony coral