Where: Cape Verde (14.9° N, 23.5° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 23.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Assomada Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• Between 1.1 and 0.7 Ma
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: B. G. Baarli, A. G. Santos, E. J. Mayoral, J. Ledesma-Vazquez, M. E. Johnson, C. M. Silva, and M. Cachao. 2013. What Darwin did not see: Pleistocene fossil assemblages on a high energy coast at Ponta das Bicudas, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands. Geological Magazine 150(1):183-189 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Megabalanus azoricus barnacle | |
Anthozoa | |
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Dactyloidites sp. Hall 1886
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842 |