Rameswaran Island (Pleistocene of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (9.3° N, 79.3° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 79.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Acropora colonies and Porites dominated colonies without Acropora

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. K. Banerjee. 2000. Holocene and Late Pleistocene relative sea level fluctuations along the east coast of India. Marine Geology 167:243-260 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107989: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Cycloseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral