BP99-3W Sue Point, San Salvador Island: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Bahamas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora palmata
(Lamarck 1816)
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23.81 %-area | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea faveolata
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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17.71 %-area | |||||||||
| recombined as Orbicella faveolata | ||||||||||
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Montastrea informal sp. 2
(Blainville 1830)
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36.86 %-area | |||||||||
| organ-pipe Montastrea | ||||||||||
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= Montastrea nancyi
Pandolfi 2007
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Pandolfi 2007 | |||||||||
| recombined as Orbicella nancyi | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Mussidae
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Diploria strigosa
(Dana 1846)
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11.61 %-area | |||||||||
| recombined as Pseudodiploria strigosa | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites furcata
Lamarck 1816
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10.01 %-area | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Bahamas |
| Coordinates: | 24.1° North, 74.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.1° North, 74.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 122 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: patch reef | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: transect 40 m long | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3801 | ||
| Database number: | 102631 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-17 21:41:01 | Last modified: | 2011-01-27 03:25:57 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2016-01-17 21:41:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34791. | A. F. Budd and J. M. Pandolfi. 2004. Overlapping species boundaries and hybridization within the Montastrea "annularis" reef coral complex in the Pleistocene of the Bahama Islands. Paleobiology 30(3):396-425 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 29698 | J. M. Pandolfi. 2007. A new, extinct Pleistocene reef coral from the Montastraea "annularis" species complex. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):472-482 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |