backreef zone, Mauritian coastal area: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Mauritius
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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0.4 %-specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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39.4 %-specimens | ||||||
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unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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9.9 %-specimens | ||||||
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Crustacea indet.
Brünnich 1772
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0.9 %-specimens | ||||||
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Tunicata indet.
Lamarck 1816
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1.2 %-specimens | ||||||
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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1.5 %-specimens | ||||||
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Ulvophyceae
- Bryopsidales
- Halimedaceae
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Halimeda sp.
Lamouroux 1812
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Soritidae
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Marginopora sp.
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Hauerinidae
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Quinqueloculina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Calcarinidae
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Calcarina sp.
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Homotrematidae
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Miniacina sp.
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Carpenteria sp.
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Amphisteginidae
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Amphistegina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Geography
| Country: | Mauritius |
| Coordinates: | 20.3° South, 57.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.3° South, 57.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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 |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: 120.000 years |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | grainstone |
| Lithology description: consist of coarse to medium grainstones, packstones and wackstones | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3807 | ||
| Database number: | 81017 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2008-05-26 07:24:12 | Last modified: | 2010-03-23 10:31:03 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-05-26 07:24:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27255. | L. F. Montaggioni. 1982. Pleistocene marine depositional environments from Mauritius island, Indian Ocean. Geobios 15(2):161-179 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] |