Also known as Reef 3806
Where: Seychelles (9.4° S, 46.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 46.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aldabra Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 125 000 years (Thompson and Walton 1972)
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1969; reposited in the BMNH
• June-September 1969, small additional quantity in 1973 m, altogether 300 specimens found in Aldabra Limestone
Primary reference: J. D. Taylor. 1978. Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll. Palaeontology 21(1):1-30 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81007: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 26.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
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Cerithium echiatum cerith snail | |
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
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"Columbella turturina" = Pyrene turturina
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Terebra sp. Bruguière 1789 auger snail | |
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Harpa sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
"Cypraea cicercula" = Pustularia cicercula, "Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, "Cypraea nucleus" = Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus, "Cypraea staphylaea" = Staphylaea (Staphylaea) staphylaea
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Bivalvia | |
"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca
"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca Bruguiére 1792 clam | |
"Chlamys cuneolus" = Pascahinnites coruscans
"Chlamys cuneolus" = Pascahinnites coruscans Hinds 1845 scallop | |
Trapezium sp. Mühlfeld 1811 clam | |
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle | |
Scutarcopagia scobinata Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam |