Clino Well, 26.2-33.5 m, Great Bahama Bank (Pleistocene 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: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified floatstone and lithified packstone

• platform margin/patch reef, moderate energy
• coral floatstone in skeletal packstone 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 73670: 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 franksi
Montastraea faveolata Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Montastraea franksi Gregory 1895 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria labyrinthiformis
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral