Praslin, La Digue, Curieuse Islands (Pleistocene of Seychelles)

Also known as Reef 3965

Where: Seychelles (4.3° S, 55.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 55.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 140-120 ka (Th/U) last interglacial stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• coralgal buildups, 2.5 m max. thickness, 1-5 m² in area, Acropora-dominated association, with abundant Leptastrea

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni and C. T. Hoang. 1988. The last interglacial high sea level in the granitic Seychelles, Indian Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 64:79-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Dendropoma sp., Serpulorbis sp.
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861 worm shell
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Tridacna sp.
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocilloporidae indet.
Pocilloporidae indet. Gray 1842 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp.
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Leptoria sp., Goniastrea sp.
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Poritidae indet.
Poritidae indet. Gray 1840 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp.
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp., Porolithon sp., Lithophyllum sp.
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Carpenteria sp., Homotrema sp.