Urelapa Island (Pleistocene of Vanuatu)

Also known as Reef 3980

Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 167.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 167.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 23-11.3 ka (Th/U)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• "keep-up" reef growth mode; medium- to high-energy conditions close to the sea surface (reef crest or upper fore-reef slope)
• branching coral facies of Acropora, various small coral buildups including favids and encrusting coralline algae

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: G. Cabioch, K. A. Banks-Cutler, W. J. Beck, G. S. Burr, T. Correge, R. L. Edwards, and F. W. Taylor. 2003. Continuous reef growth during the last 23 cal kyr BP in a tectonically active zone (Vanuatu, southwest Pacific). Quaternary Science Reviews 22:1771-1786 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89441: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet., Favia sp.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Leptoria phrygia, Platygyra lamellina
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp.
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp., Goniopora ex gr. lobata
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora ex gr. lobata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Astreopora sp., Alveopora sp., Montipora sp., Acropora sp.
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Hydrolithon cf. onkodes, Corallinaceae indet.
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816