Vaini (Pleistocene of Tonga)

Where: Tonga (21.2° S, 175.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 175.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Ostergaard. 1935. Recent and fossil marine Mollusca of Tongatabu. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 131:1-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96437: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima squamosa file clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium orbita" = Vasticardium orbita
"Cardium orbita" = Vasticardium orbita Reeve 1845 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina cruciata tellin clam
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Astralium petrosum snail
subsp. virescens