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
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Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
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 |