Dunk Island, Outer 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; 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 167487: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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 Mollusca -
Mollusca indet.
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp.
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pachyseris speciosa, Pavona decussata
Pachyseris speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Pavona decussata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
"Fungia danai" = Pleuractis paumotensis
"Fungia danai" = Pleuractis paumotensis Stutchbury 1833 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora stokesi, Porites sp.
Goniopora stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria frondens
Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora pulchra, Montipora sp.
Acropora pulchra Brook 1891 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Palauastrea ramosa
Palauastrea ramosa Yabe and Sugiyama 1941 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora hystrix, Stylophora pistillata
Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846 stony coral
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp.
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Oulophyllia sp., Cyphastrea serailia, Goniastrea indet., Hydnophora rigida, Favites complanata, Favites halicora
Oulophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Hydnophora rigida stony coral
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Favites halicora Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda indet.
Halimeda indet. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
Foraminifera indet. foram
benthic