Gwadar uplifted (Pleistocene of Pakistan)

Also known as Reef 4188

Where: Pakistan (25.1° N, 62.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 62.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Ali, P. J. A. Siddiqui, K. Bromfield, A. A. Khan, and P. Iqbal. 2017. Quaternary fossil coral communities in uplifted strata along the Balochistan coast of Pakistan: understanding modern coral decline in the Arabian Sea. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 10(520) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192909: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora "sp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora "sp. 2" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
Platygyra sinensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
"Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Echinopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Hydnophora microconos Lamarck 1816 stony coral
[entered as Hydnophora microconis]
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Favites cf. abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Favites spinosa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
"Goniastrea aspera" = Coelastrea aspera Verrill 1866 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral