Great Inagua Island, Devil's Point, B (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 3950

Where: Bahamas (21.0° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 130-125 ka (Th/U), MIS 5e

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• facies 1: coral rubblestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. H. Chen, H. A. Curren, B. White and G. J. Wasserburg. 1991. Precise chronology of the last interglacial period: 234U-230Th data from fossil coral reefs in the Bahamas. Geological Society America Bulletin 103:82-97 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89418: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Cymodoceaceae
Syringodium filiforme Kutzing 1860
 Alismatales - Hydrocharitaceae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Life -
Skolithos linearis Haldeman 1840
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891