Where: Kenya (4.5° S, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 39.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tridacna gigas U-series open system age of 120±4 ka (group A)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1986. Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Coral Reefs 4:183-196 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81094: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 04.06.2008, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Periglypta puerpera Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
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Gloripallium pallium, Decatopecten flabelloides, "Chlamys senatorius" = Mimachlamys senatoria, Spondylus sp.
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
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"Arca ventricosa" = Lamarcka ventricosa, Arca navicularis, Striarca afra, "Anadara antiquata" = Anadara (Anadara) antiquata, Barbatia helblingii, Barbatia caelata, "Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca
Arca navicularis Bruguière 1789 ark
Striarca afra clam
Barbatia caelata clam
"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca Bruguiére 1792 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea erosa" = Naria erosa
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