Daliconi FLV1.2, Vanua Balevu (Miocene of Fiji)
Where: Fiji (17.2° S, 179.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 179.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daliconi Member (Tokelau Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and grainstone
• intermediate to lower reef slope
• well preserved corals in framestone, interstitial sediment between coral heads consists of well sorted medium grained calcareous grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124829: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012