Clino Well, 135.6-140.5 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pliocene of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 705

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 78.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified packstone

• fore-reef, moderate to high energy
• framestone with high-diversity corals in high-diversity skeletal packstone/grainstone matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. F. Budd and C. Manfrino. 2001. Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores. in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 41-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73662: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea faveolata
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora panamensis, Acropora cervicornis
Acropora panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral