Site 6, Bamburi Quarry: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Scutellastra sp. Adams and Adams 1854
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Leptothyra filifera
synonym of Collonista
1-5 % specimens
Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
1-5 % specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Clanculus sp. Monfort 1810
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Trochus maculatus Linnaeus 1758
1-5 % specimens
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora sp. Gray 1821
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis articulata Adams 1850
1-5 % specimens
Cerithium echinatum Lamarck 1822
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella paxillus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella varians
1-5 % specimens
Columbella musicus
1-5 % specimens
Columbella turturina Lamarck 1822
recombined as Pyrene turturina
5-10 % specimens
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Trivia sp. Broderip 1837
1-5 % specimens
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea helvola Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola
1-5 % specimens
Cypraea scurra Gmelin 1791
recombined as Mauritia scurra
Cypraea globulus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Pustularia globulus
1-5 % specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus dentatus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Tridentarius dentatus
1-5 % specimens
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Phalium sp. Link 1807
Casmaria sp. Adams and Adams 1853
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus 1758)
1-5 % specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita variegata Bruguière 1792
1-5 % specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia fusca (Bruguiére 1792)
recombined as Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca
1-5 % specimens
Acar plicata (Dillwyn 1817)
1-5 % specimens
Arca ventricosa Lamarck 1819
recombined as Lamarcka ventricosa
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
1-5 % specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula imbricata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Decatopecten flabelloides
1-5 % specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1-5 % specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.0° South, 39.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° South, 39.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:120 ± 4 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 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)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: deeper water Acropora terrace associated with Halimeda microhabitats
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Geology comments: reef front terrace
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3352
Database number:81036
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Girndt, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Collections that are a subset of this one:44903
Created:2008-05-27 07:36:17 Last modified:2012-04-27 05:11:55
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-05-27 07:36:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27259. 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]

Secondary references:

41322 G. Accordi, M. Brilli, F. Carbone and M. Voltaggio. 2010. The raised coral reef complex of the Kenyan coast: Tridacna gigas U-series dates and geological implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences 58:97-114 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]