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: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithology not reported
Size class: 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 118311: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 12.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
"Turritella carinifera" = Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera
"Turritella carinifera" = Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera Deshayes 1824 turret shell | |
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Calyptraea helicoidea slipper shell | |
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Hespererato oppenheimeri Kensley and Pether 1986 snail | |
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Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Nucella praecingulata, Thais arenae n. sp.
Nucella praecingulata Haughton 1932 murex snail
Thais arenae n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 murex snail | |
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Nassarius litorafontis snail
Nassarius kochianus Dunker 1846 snail | |
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale, Melapium hawthornei n. sp.
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale Dillwyn 1817 true whelk
Melapium hawthornei n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 true whelk | |
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Natica cf. adansoni Blainville 1825 moon snail | |
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Littorina sp. Ferussac 1821 periwinkle | |
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Turbo cidaris snail | |
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Diodora elevata snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Striostrea margaritacea Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp.
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 oyster | |
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Arca noae Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
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Mactra cf. dernbergi clam | |
Cardita unica n. sp.
Cardita unica n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 clam | |