Navaka River, Espiritu Santo (Pleistocene of Vanuatu)

Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 166.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ionian (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Old age estimate: 25,280 ± 400 yrs. B.P. The same species of coral from the overlying deposit of Kere 1 gave an age of 133 +/- 5.5 ka. These reliable benchmarks suggest that the Kere sequence was deposited during the warmer Marine Isotope Stages MIS 5

•(Kere 1).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified sandstone and unlithified siltstone

• The ahermatypic coral fauna ... is one typical of sandy or silty bottoms in moderately deep water (200 m).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Material collected by Ladd

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1984. Notes on Indo-Pacific Scleractinian Corals. Part 10. Late Pleistocene ahermatypic corals from Vanuatu. Pacific Science 38(3):205-219 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84452: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Fungiacyathidae
Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars 1872 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
"Stephanophyllia japonica" = Letepsammia formosissima
"Stephanophyllia japonica" = Letepsammia formosissima Moseley 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora porcellana Moseley 1881 stony coral
Several more or less fragmentary pieces of small colonies
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Peponocyathus orientalis Duncan 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger Marenzeller 1888 stony coral
Deltocyathus heteroclitus n. sp. Wells 1984 stony coral
"Citharocyathus conicus" = Notocyathus conicus Alcock 1902 stony coral
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Bourneotrochus veroni Wells 1984 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cf. deludens Marenzeller 1904 stony coral