Where: Israel (29.5° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 34.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Shaked, A. Agnon, B. Lazar, S. Marco, U. Avner and M. Stein. 2004. Large earthquakes kill coral reefs at the north-west Gulf of Aqaba. Terra Nova 16:133-138 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97662: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.08.2010, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Tubipora sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Gyrosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral |