Where: New Caledonia (22.0° S, 165.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 165.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• units 7-9 (depth 47.60-10.35 mbct), age dating from samples from units 8 and 9, MIS 9 and 5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni, G. Cabioch, N. Thouveny, N. Frank, T. Sato and A. M. Semah. 2011. Revisiting the Quaternary development history of the western New Caledonian shelf system: from ramp to barrier reef. Marine Geology 280:57-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109502: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Acropora ex gr. selago Studer 1878 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. aspera Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia cf. costata Duncan 1846 stony coral | |
Leptastrea cf. purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites ex gr. australiensis Vaughan 1918 stony coral
Porites ex gr. lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites ex gr. lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Cyphastrea sp., Platygyra daedalea, "Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera, Favites sp., Favites cf. abdita, Leptoria phrygia
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Platygyra daedalea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Favia cf. stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Favites cf. abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral | |
Tubothalamea | |
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia sp., "Textularia cf. agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
"Textularia cf. agglutinans" = Textularia jurassica Guembel 1862 | |
Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Globothalamea | |
Sphaerogypsina globula Reuss 1848 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930 | |
Amphiroa sp., Lithoporella melobesiodes, Hydrolithon reinboldii, Hydrolithon onkodes, Neogoniolithon cf. fosliei, Lithophyllum cf. moluccense, Lithophyllum sp.
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