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 176656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Venus verrucosa venus clam | |
Hydrozoa | |
Millepora alcicornis Linnaeus 1758 fire coral | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral
Tubastraea sp. Lesson 1829 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986 | |
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842
Gastrochaenolites cluniformis Kelly and Bromley 1984
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944 |