Also known as Reef 3352
Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 39.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tridacna gigas U-Series open system age from nearby Kikambala quarry (15 m a.s.l.) and Shelly Beach Quarry (12 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; 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 81100: 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 | |
Codakia sp. Scopoli 1777 clam | |
"Tridacna gigas" = Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas
"Tridacna gigas" = Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella)
"Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella) Mörch 1853 tellin clam | |
Pitar sp., Dosinia sp., "Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta, "Comus platyaulax" = Tivela (Comus), Clementia papyracea
"Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta Linnaeus 1758 Script Venus
"Comus platyaulax" = Tivela (Comus) venus clam | |
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Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Gastropoda | |
Conus textile cone shell
Conus sponsalis cone shell
Conus generalis Linnaeus 1767 cone shell
Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguiére 1792 cone shell | |
Terebra dimidiata auger snail
Terebra maculata Linnaeus 1758 auger snail | |
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
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Anthozoa | |
Heterocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Heteropsammia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |