Balls Pyramid shelf, mixed biota – Lower cover (Holocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.8° S, 159.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 159.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

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

• mid-shelf lower reef

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. Linklater. 2016. Past and present coral distribution at the latitudinal limit of reef development, southwest Pacific Ocean. University of Wollongong Australia [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 184900: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussidae indet. Ortmann 1890 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863 pencil urchin