Namalata FLV2.2.1, Vanua Balevu (Miocene of Fiji)

Where: Fiji (17.3° S, 179.0° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° S, 179.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Futuna Member (Tokelau Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone

• intermediate to lower reef slope
• fine-grained wackestone with < 10% siliciclastic material, but with lenses of glassy volcanic breccia and abundant coralgal clasts

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124833: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastrea hillae Wells 1955 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Alveopora polyacantha Reuss 1867 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. F" Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora djiboutiensis Vaughan 1907 stony coral
Goniopora stutchburyi Wells 1955 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral
Cyphastrea tubifera Gerth 1923 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Leptoria "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea elegantissima Umbgrove 1946 stony coral
Galaxea paucisepta Claereboudt 1990 stony coral
Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral