Where: South Africa (28.4° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 32.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: NN19 zone, False Bay Coral Limestone Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• late Early Pleistocene (Early Calabrian). Nannofossil zone NN19 (Liu et al. 1996) and oxygen-isotope stage 63 (Lisiecki 2005).
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; rudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. R. Cooper. 2014. The Cainozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy of KwaZulu-Natal. Part 5. The False Bay Coral Limestone Formation. Stratigraphy and fauna. Durban Natural Science Museum Novitates (37)7-24 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173265: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pleuroploca trapezium Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Ovatipsa chinensis Gmelin 1791 cowry | |
"Canarium mutabilis" = Canarium mutabile
"Canarium mutabilis" = Canarium mutabile Swainson 1821 true conch | |
Naticarius alapapilionis Röding 1798 moon snail
Glossaulax didyma Röding 1798 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Fragum nivale Reeve 1845 cockle | |
Gari maculosa Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Lutraria aff. australis Deshayes 1855 clam | |
Chama limbula Lamarck 1819 jewel box | |
"Pitarina hebraea" = Pitar (Pitarina), Timoclea costellifera, Gafrarium pectinatum, "Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta
"Pitarina hebraea" = Pitar (Pitarina) venus clam
Timoclea costellifera Adams and Reeve 1850 venus clam
Gafrarium pectinatum Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
"Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta Linnaeus 1758 Script Venus | |
Diplodonta aff. subrotundata Issel 1869 clam | |
Anadara jacksoni n. sp., Barbatia foliata
Anadara jacksoni n. sp. Cooper 2014 ark
Barbatia foliata Forsskal 1775 clam | |
Hyotissa virleti Deshayes 1832 oyster | |
Dendostrea folium Linnaeus 1758 foliate oyster
Nicaisolopha tridacnaeformis Cox 1927 oyster
"Saccostrea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster | |
Spiniplicatula muricata Sowerby 1873 scallop | |
Anomia achaeus Gray 1849 jingle | |
"Mimachlamys sanguinea" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys), Decatopecten amiculum
"Mimachlamys sanguinea" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys) scallop
Decatopecten amiculum Philippi 1851 scallop |