Nanakuli beach line, Oahu: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Hawaii

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sandvichensis
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Littoraria pintado
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus ebraeus Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea maculifera Schilder 1932
recombined as Mauritia maculifera
Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus 1758
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]