Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (Holocene of Kiribati)

Where: Kiribati (1.9° N, 157.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 157.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• environmentally corrected radiocarbon age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Porites microatolls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. D. Woodroffe and R. F. McLean. 1998. Pleistocene morphology and Holocene emergence of Christmas (Kiritimati) Island, Pacific Ocean. Coral Reefs 17:235-248 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97450: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Tridacna sp.
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp.
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp.
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
? Platygyra sp.
? Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral