Nanakuli beach line, Oahu: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Hawaii
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sandvichensis
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Littoraria pintado
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus ebraeus
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea maculifera
Schilder 1932
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recombined as Mauritia maculifera | ||||||||||
Cypraea caputserpentis
Linnaeus 1758
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recombined as Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis | ||||||||||
listed as C. captoserpentis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Hawaii |
Coordinates: | 21.4° North, 158.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 21.4° North, 158.2° 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: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 119 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Waimanalo | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ~119 ka (coral sample at Kahe Point), last interglacial |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Lithology description: limestones and conglomerates | |
Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
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: | 89401 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Subset of collection #: | 22975 | ||
Created: | 2009-05-18 01:24:19 | Last modified: | 2010-03-22 05:09:11 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-05-18 01:24:19 |
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] |