Also known as Reef 3352
Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 39.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tridacna gigas U-Series open system age from nearby Kikambala quarry (15 m a.s.l.) and Shelly Beach Quarry (12 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1986. Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Coral Reefs 4:183-196 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81074: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 03.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Leptothyra filifera" = Collonista, "Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
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Bivalvia | |
"Semipecten radula" = Decatopecten radula, Spondylus sp.
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"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca
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Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral |