Ko Taphao Yai (Holocene of Thailand)

Where: Phuket, Thailand (7.8° N, 98.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 98.4° 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; reef rocks

• reefs established on a relatively flat rocky substrate, but with time, the reefs grew into a more steeply shelving muddy fore-reef slope

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: T. P. Scoffin and M. D. A. Le Tissier. 1998. Late Holocene sea level and reef-flat progradation, Phuket, south Thailand. Coral Reefs 17:273-276 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97529: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral