Tague Reef, St. Croix (Pleistocene of Virgin Islands, U.S.)

Where: Virgin Islands, U.S. (17.8° N, 64.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 64.6° W)

• 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

• shallow reef, reef flat and back-reef

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. A. Toscano, I. G. Macintyre, and J. Lundberg. 2012. Last interglacial reef limestones, northeastern St. Croix, US Virgin Islands — evidence of tectonic tilting and subsidence since MIS 5.5. Coral Reefs 31(1):27-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 119927: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Titanoderma prototypum
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrema rubrum
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agaricia sp.
Agaricia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites, Porites astreoides
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp., Diploria labyrinthiformis
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp.
Millepora sp. fire coral