Also known as Reef 3807
Where: Mauritius (20.3° S, 57.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.3° S, 57.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 120.000 years mentioned but not measured
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni. 1982. Pleistocene marine depositional environments from Mauritius island, Indian Ocean. Geobios 15(2):161-179 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81015: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 26.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Cheilostomata sp. Busk 1859 | |
Gastropoda | |
Vermetidae sp. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora sp. fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Acropora sp., "Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
"Textularia agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica
"Textularia agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica Guembel 1862 | |
Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Planorbulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |