windward core, Rashdoo Atoll, Indian Ocean (Pleistocene to of Maldives)

Also known as Reef 3818

Where: Maldives (4.3° N, 73.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 73.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• 137 and 114 kyr BP, ca. 135 kyr BP during marine isotope stage 5e

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and grainstone

• probably was formed in back reef or inner reef flat settings

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: E. Gischler, J. H. Hudson, and A. Pisera. 2008. Late Quaternary reef growth and sea level in the Maldives (Indian Ocean). Marine Geology 250(1-2):104-113 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 25.08.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause and Keenan Hassell

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Soritidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Harveylithon ex gr. munitum Foslie and Howe 1906
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
"Lithophyllum ex gr. pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
"Porolithon onkodes" = Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
  -
Dawsoniolithon conicum Humblet et al. 2019
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Anthozoa
 Helioporacea -
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Echinophyllia ? sp. Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
? Acropora ex gr. robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral