Waimanalo-Kailua, Oahu: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Hawaii

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea granulata Pease 1862
recombined as Nucleolaria granulata
Cypraea caputserpentis Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis
listed as C. captoserpentis
Cypraea maculifera Schilder 1932
recombined as Mauritia maculifera
Cypraea mauritiana Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Mauritia mauritiana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus flavidus Lamarck 1810
Conus vitulinus Hwass in Bruguiére 1792
synonym of Conus planorbis
Conus chaldaeus (Röding 1798)
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus sandwichensis Souleyet 1852
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Marmorostoma intercostalium (Menke 1829)
recombined as Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer vaughani Dall et al. 1938
synonym of Septifer (Septifer) excisus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Hawaii
Coordinates: 21.3° North, 157.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.3° North, 157.7° 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 3971
Database number:89406
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:22975
Created:2009-05-18 04:54:57 Last modified:2010-03-22 05:03:49
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-18 04:54:57
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]