Also known as Column 4
Where: South Africa (32.8° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° 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
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Originally reported by Krige, 1927.
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 122936: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.01.2012, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Natica saldontiana moon snail
Natica ? queketti moon snail | |
Cymatium dolarium, "Argobuccinum argus" = Argobuccinum pustulosum
Cymatium dolarium triton shell
"Argobuccinum argus" = Argobuccinum pustulosum Solander and Lightfoot 1786 triton shell | |
Burnupena cincta true whelk
Burnupena papyracea true whelk | |
Bullia ? rhodostoma snail
Bullia ? pura snail | |
"Thais squamosa" = Sistrum squamosum
"Thais squamosa" = Sistrum squamosum Pease 1868 snail | |
Helcion pruinosus limpet
Patella compressa limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
"Glycimeris ? queketti" = Glycymeris
"Glycimeris ? queketti" = Glycymeris clam | |
"Schizodesma ? spengleri" = Scissodesma, Lutraria oblonga
"Schizodesma ? spengleri" = Scissodesma clam
Lutraria oblonga Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Tellina trilatera tellin clam | |
Donax serra Roding 1798 clam | |
Aulacomya crenatus, "Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra
Aulacomya crenatus mussel
"Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra Molina 1782 mussel | |