Kere River, Espiritu Santo: Ionian, Vanuatu
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Oculinidae
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Madrepora porcellana
(Moseley 1881)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| Several more or less fragmentary pieces of small colonies | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Flabellidae
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Flabellum paripavoninum
Alcock 1894
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Flabellum vanuatu n. sp.
Wells 1984
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14 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Heterocyathus aequicostatus
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Caryophyllia scobinosa
Alcock 1902
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15 specimens | |||||||||
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Acanthocyathus grayi
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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21 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Dendrophyllia subcornigera
Eguchi 1968
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| A number of fragments | ||||||||||
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Balanophyllia gigas
v.d. Horst 1922
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Fungiidae
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Diaseris distorta
(Michelin 1842)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| worn | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Fungiacyathidae
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Fungiacyathus cf. stephanus
(Alcock 1893)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Fungiacyathus fragilis
Sars 1872
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Hydrozoa
- Stylasterina
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Distichopora nitida
Verrill 1864
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Vanuatu |
| Coordinates: | 15.6° South, 166.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.6° South, 166.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Ionian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Old age estimate: 25,280 ± 400 yrs. B.P. The same species of coral from the overlying deposit of Kere 1 gave an age of 133 +/- 5.5 ka. These reliable benchmarks suggest that the Kere sequence was deposited during the warmer Marine Isotope Stages MIS 5
(Kere 1). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified siltstone |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: The ahermatypic coral fauna ... is one typical of sandy or silty bottoms in moderately deep water (200 m). | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Material collected by Ladd | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84453 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-10-20 05:56:25 | Last modified: | 2017-07-05 00:43:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-10-20 05:56:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28290. | J. W. Wells. 1984. Notes on Indo-Pacific Scleractinian Corals. Part 10. Late Pleistocene ahermatypic corals from Vanuatu. Pacific Science 38(3):205-219 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner] |