Aga Point, seaward facies: Holocene, Guam
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Hydrozoa
- Milleporina
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Millepora platyphylla
Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1834
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Leptastreidae
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Leptastrea transversa
Klunzinger 1879
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Lobophylliidae
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Acanthastrea echinata
(Dana 1846)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora sp.
Oken 1815
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Acropora monticulosa
(Brüggemann 1879)
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Acropora irregularis
(Brook 1892)
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| synonym of Acropora abrotanoides | |||||||
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Acropora tenuis
(Dana 1846)
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Montipora sp.
Blainville 1830
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Montipora foveolata
(Dana 1846)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Pocillopora setchelli
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Pocillopora sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Pocillopora damicornis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Pocillopora elegans
Dana 1846
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Montastrea curta
(Dana 1846)
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| original and current combination Astrea curta | |||||||
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Hydnophora microconos
(Lamarck 1816)
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Goniastrea retiformis
(Lamarck 1816)
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Favia stelligera
(Dana 1846)
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| recombined as Goniastrea stelligera | |||||||
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Platygyra pini
Chevalier 1975
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Oulophyllia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Leptoria phrygia
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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Favia sp.
Oken 1815
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= Dipsastraea sp.
de Blainville 1830
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Huang et al. 2014 | ||||||
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Favia pallida
(Dana 1846)
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| recombined as Dipsastraea pallida | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites sp.
Link 1807
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Geography
| Country: | Guam |
| Coordinates: | 13.2° North, 144.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.2° North, 144.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 4140 ± 80 to 2990 ± 70 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Merizo | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age after Kayanne 1993 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: low-diversity, Pocillopora-Acropora-rich, high-energy seaward facies | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 97444 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel, W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-07-28 01:54:55 | Last modified: | 2010-07-28 05:48:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-07-28 01:54:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33227. | H. G. Siegrist and R. H. Randall. 1985. Community structure and petrography of an emergent Holocene reef limestone on Guam. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress 6:563-568 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 53799 | D. Huang, F. Benzoni, H. Fukami, N. Knowlton, N. D. Smith and F. Ann Budd. 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171(2):277-355 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] | |
| 33226 | H. Kayanne, T. Ishii, E. Matsumoto and N. Yonekura. 1993. Late Holocene sea-level change on Rota and Guam, Mariana Islands, and its constraint on geophysical predictions. Quaternary Research 40:189-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |