Doorn Baai (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as Column 4

Where: South Africa (31.8° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Pleistocene, presumably. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown. Assumed unlithified as it is described as a "raised beach".

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Originally reported by Haughton, 1932.

Primary reference: K. H. Barnard. 1962. Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 36(4):179-196 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though with species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima fragilis file clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chamelea krigei venus clam
Gastropoda
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
"Patella barbara" = Scutellastra barbara Linnaeus 1758 limpet
"Patella cochlear" = Scutellastra cochlear Born 1778 limpet
Patella granularis Linnaeus 1758 limpet
Patella granatina Linnaeus 1758 limpet
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae