Rio Bueno Harbour [Falmouth Fm] (Pleistocene of Jamaica)

Also known as Reef 3800

Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falmouth Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 125,000 y.b.p.

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and poorly lithified grainstone

• fore-reef, macrofauna exhibits a higher coral diversity
• constituent composition dominated by sand-sized coral

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: line-transecting techniques, standard point-counting techniques

Primary reference: S. K. Boss and W. D. Liddell. 1987. Back-reef and Fore-reef Analogs in the Pleistocene of North Jamaica: Implications for Facies Recognition and Sediment Flux in Fossil reefs. Palaios 2:219-228 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 29.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet., Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites furcata, Porites astreoides
Porites furcata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia agaricites
Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa
"Diploria strigosa" = Pseudodiploria strigosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Entobia convoluta, Entobia glomerata, Entobia geometrica, Entobia mammillata, Entobia megastoma, Entobia ovula, Entobia ichnospecies
Entobia glomerata demosponge
Entobia geometrica demosponge
Entobia mammillata demosponge
Entobia megastoma demosponge
Entobia ovula demosponge
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet.
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrema indet.
 Ichnofossils -
Trypanites sp., Gastrochaenolites torpedo
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932
Gastrochaenolites torpedo Kelly and Bromley 1984