Puuloa, Oahu: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Hawaii
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Cymatium gemmatum
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Cymatium muricinum
(Röding 1798)
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| recombined as Gutturnium muricinum | ||||||||||
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Cymatium nicobaricum
(Röding 1798)
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| recombined as Monoplex nicobaricus | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Quidnipagus palatum
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| listed as Quidonipagus palatum | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca vetula
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Hawaii |
| Coordinates: | 21.3° North, 158.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.4° North, 157.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 134 to 113 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waimanalo | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age from coral samples 134-113 ka | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: limestones and conglomerates | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: reef and near-reef deposits | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3255 | ||
| Database number: | 89309 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 22975 | ||
| Created: | 2009-05-15 06:52:22 | Last modified: | 2010-03-22 05:19:40 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-05-15 06:52:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29953. | S. Kosuge. 1969. Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands. Bulletin of the National Science Museum 12(4):783-794 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |