ammonites
Maraa, M0005D, subunit P4 (Pleistocene of French Polynesia)

Also known as Reef 3983

Where: Tahiti, French Polynesia (17.8° S, 149.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 149.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• subunit P4 (2.61 m thick) of the 70-m-thick (33.22–101.93 m below

•seafloor [mbsf]; 92.85–161.56 mbsl) older Pleistocene unit (unit II of Camoin 2007), age dating from core 20R (117.52 mbsl)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• shallow reef environment (<20 m depth)
• coralgal framestone, matrix is bioclastic packstone and peloid-bioclast grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: Y. Iryu, Y. Takahashi, K. Fujita, G. Camoin, G. Cabioch, H. Matsuda, T. Sato, K. Sugihara, J. M. Webster and H. Westphal. 2010. Sealevel history recorded in the Pleistocene carbonate sequence in IODP Hole 310-M0005D, off Tahiti. Island Arc 19:690-706 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127244: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2012