Tasmaloum Reef (Pleistocene of Vanuatu)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• lower unit: 24-15 ka, middle unit: 15-10 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• lower unit: robust-branching coral facies, tabular coral facies, fine skeletal detrital facies, middle unit: higher proportion of framework facies dominated by the robust-branching coral facies

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: G. Cabioch, F. W. Taylor, J. Recy, R. L. Edwards, S. C. Gray, G. Faure, G. S. Burr and T. Correge. 1998. Environmental and tectonic influence on growth and internal structure of a fringing reef at Tasmaloum (SW Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides island arc, SW Pacific). In G. Camoin, P. J. Davies (eds.), Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the pacific and Indian Oceans, IAS Special Publication 25:261-277 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97441: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora digitata Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora danai" = Acropora abrotanoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. cytherea Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
Pocillopora verrucosa Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Goniastrea cf. retiformis, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea cf. retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral