Sugar Loaf, bed 31b (Pleistocene of Netherlands Antilles)

Where: Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles (17.5° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Wall Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "coral limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Westermann, Kiel in 1958

Primary reference: J. H. Westermann and H. Kiel. 1961. The geology of Saba and St. Eustatius, with notes on the geology of St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat (Lesser Antilles). Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen 24:1-175 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209790: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis decactis Lyman 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Montastrea annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Meandrina maeandrites" = Meandrina meandrites, Dichocoenia stokesi
"Meandrina maeandrites" = Meandrina meandrites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral