ammonites
Amedee 4, unit 1 (Pleistocene to of New Caledonia)

Where: New Caledonia (22.5° S, 166.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 166.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• unit 1: 115-126.5 m, 850-410 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone and grainstone

• succession of shallow/high to moderate energy and deeper/low energy environments with depths less than 40 m, pioneer stage of platform/reef development
• alternation of beds with fine debris and active rhodolith growth and beds of coarse debris and reworked rhodoliths

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. E. Payri and G. Cabioch. 2004. The systematics and significance of coralline red algae in the rhodolith sequence of the Amedee 4 drill core (southwest New Caledonia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 204:187-208 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89431: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.05.2009