Dunk Island, Inner Part of the Reef Flat (Holocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (17.9° S, 146.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; muddy, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic

• Fringing Reef

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: C. T. Perry, S. G. Smithers, R. C. Roche and J. Wassenburg. 2011. Recurrent patterns of coral community and sediment facies development through successive phases of Holocene inner-shelf reef growth and decline. Marine Geology 289:60-71 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167465: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

 Mollusca -
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona decussata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Psammocora sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
"Fungia danai" = Pleuractis paumotensis
"Fungia danai" = Pleuractis paumotensis Stutchbury 1833 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora pulchra Brook 1891 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Palauastrea ramosa Yabe and Sugiyama 1941 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846 stony coral
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora rigida stony coral
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda indet. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet. foram
benthic