Britomart Reef (Holocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (18.3° S, 146.7° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 146.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Britomart 1: 8660-5255 yBP, Britomart 2: 8925-3120 yBP, Holocene sequence is 19.8 m (Britomart 1) and 25.5 m (Britomart 2) thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral boundstone, coral framestone, coral rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. Johnson, C. Cuff, and E. Rhodes. 1984. Holocene reef sequences and geochemistry, Britomart Reef, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Sedimentology 31:515-529 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97319: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet.
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp.
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrema sp.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp.
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam