Clino Well, 120.1-135.6 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pliocene to of Bahamas)

Also known as Reef 3602

Where: Bahamas (24.6° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 78.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• fore-reef, moderate to high energy
• framestone in high-diversity or mixed 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 73663: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora panamensis Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Trachyphyllia bilobata, "Montastraea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
Trachyphyllia bilobata Duncan 1863 stony coral
"Montastraea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Dendrogyra cylindrus Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
[entered as Dendrogyra cylindricus]
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral