backreef zone, Mauritian coastal area (Pleistocene of Mauritius)

Also known as Reef 3807

Where: Mauritius (20.3° S, 57.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.3° S, 57.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 120.000 years

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; grainstone

• consist of coarse to medium grainstones, packstones and wackstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni. 1982. Pleistocene marine depositional environments from Mauritius island, Indian Ocean. Geobios 15(2):161-179 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81017: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 26.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Crustacea
  -
Crustacea indet. BrĂ¼nnich 1772
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
unclassified
  -
Tunicata indet. Lamarck 1816