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
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 | |
Syringodium filiforme Kutzing 1860 | |
Thalassia testudinum Banks 1805 | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Skolithos linearis Haldeman 1840
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |