Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.9° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 18.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Kensley and J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(6):141-225 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118308: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 12.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Patella argenvillei limpet
Patella granatina Linnaeus 1758 limpet
"Patella barbara" = Scutellastra barbara Linnaeus 1758 limpet | |
Turbo cidaris snail | |
Oxystele sinensis top snail | |
Diodora elevata snail
Amblychilepas scutellum Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Calyptraea kilburni Kensley and Pether 1986 slipper shell | |
"Turritella carinifera" = Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera
"Turritella carinifera" = Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera Deshayes 1824 turret shell | |
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell | |
Nucella dubia murex snail
Nucella praecingulata Haughton 1932 murex snail | |
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale Dillwyn 1817 true whelk | |
Conus mozambicus cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Dosinia sicarisinus n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 venus clam
Venus verrucocsa venus clam
Tivela cf. compressa venus clam | |
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
"Leporimetis hanleyi" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis), Gastrana sp., Tellina ponsonbyi, Tellina trilatera
"Leporimetis hanleyi" = Psammotreta (Leporimetis) tellin clam
Gastrana sp. Schumacher 1817 tellin clam
Tellina ponsonbyi tellin clam
Tellina trilatera tellin clam | |
Donax rogersi clam | |
Perna perna Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Choromytilus meridionalis mussel | |
Striostrea margaritacea Lamarck 1819 oyster |