Rota Island (Holocene of Northern Mariana Islands)

Where: Northern Mariana Islands (14.2° N, 145.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 145.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: H. Kayanne, T. Ishii, E. Matsumoto and N. Yonekura. 1993. Late Holocene sea-level change on Rota and Guam, Mariana Islands, and its constraint on geophysical predictions. Quaternary Research 40:189-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97443: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp.
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp.
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylocoeniella sp.
Stylocoeniella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp., Acropora humilis
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora humilis Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral