San Salvador, shallow subtidal facies (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

Where: San Salvador, Bahamas (24.0° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 74.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone

• 0.8 m of non-stratified, bioturbated grainstones lies gradationally above the reef-cap facies and gradationally above the deeper subtidal facies in the area directly northeast of the reef (Figs. 2 and 3). The reefward portion of this facies comprises 0.35 m of very well-cemented coarse-grained shelly grainstone/packstone that is welded firmly to the reef-cap facies and forms a pronounced ledge at its eroded limit. Bivalve, gastropod, and coral fragments are common throughout. The landward portion of this facies comprises 0.46 m of moderately cemented, somewhat friable and less resistant rock that is overlain gradationally by laminated rock of beach origin. All rocks of the shallow subtidal facies are extensively burrowed

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. E. Hattin and V. L. Warren. 1989. Stratigraphic analysis of a fossil Neogoniolithon-capped patch reef and associated facies, San Salvador, Bahamas. Coral Reefs (8)19-30 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148708: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp.
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Neogoniolithon sp.
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
 Ichnofossils -
? Ophiomorpha sp., Thalassinoides sp.
? Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944