Tasmaloum Reef (Holocene of Vanuatu)

Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 166.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• upper unit < 10 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• mixture of shallow and deep-coral assemblages, down-slope transport
• upper unit: mixture of robust-branching assemblage, domal coral assemblage, with foliaceous corals

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: G. Cabioch, F. W. Taylor, J. Recy, R. L. Edwards, S. C. Gray, G. Faure, G. S. Burr and T. Correge. 1998. Environmental and tectonic influence on growth and internal structure of a fringing reef at Tasmaloum (SW Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides island arc, SW Pacific). In G. Camoin, P. J. Davies (eds.), Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the pacific and Indian Oceans, IAS Special Publication 25:261-277 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97442: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp., "Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pachyseris rugosa Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites cf. pentagona, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
Favites cf. pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae