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