Ponta das Bicudas, Praia, station 6: Calabrian, Cape Verde
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Circolites kotoncensis
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Spirobis sp.
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
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Corallinales indet.
Silva and Johansen 1986
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Venus verrucosa
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Hydrozoa
- Milleporina
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Millepora alcicornis
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites sp.
Link 1807
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Tubastraea sp.
Lesson 1829
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Balanophyllia sp.
Wood 1844
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unclassified
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Thalassinoides sp.
Ehrenberg 1944
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Gastrochaenolites sp.
Leymerie 1842
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24 specimens | ||||||
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Gastrochaenolites cluniformis
Kelly and Bromley 1984
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Geography
| Country: | Cape Verde |
| Coordinates: | 14.9° North, 23.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.9° North, 23.6° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Assomada | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Between 1.1 and 0.7 Ma |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "reef rocks" |
| Environment: | slope/ramp reef |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176656 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-24 04:47:58 | Last modified: | 2016-02-24 04:47:58 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2016-05-24 04:47:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58257. | 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] |