Sal Island: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Cape Verde

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa - Milleporina
Millepora sp.
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum (Esper 1795)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians (Pallas 1766)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices lacteus (Guilding 1834)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus ermineus Born 1778
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus viverratus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Harpa rosea Lamarck 1816
replaced by Harpa doris
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus latus
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita senegalensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Cape Verde
Coordinates: 16.7° North, 22.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.6° North, 22.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: older terraces 340-320 ka, younger terraces 129-110 ka
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: grainstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89617
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-05 04:44:50 Last modified:2009-06-05 07:44:50
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30050. C. Zazo, J. L. Goy, C. J. Dabrio, V. Soler, C. Hillaire-Marcel, B. Ghaleb, J. A. Gonzalez-Delgado, T. Bardaji, and A. Cabero. 2007. Quaternary marine terraces on Sal Island (Cape Verde archipelago). Quaternary Science Reviews 26:876-893 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]