Seluba Island, Reef limestone (locality M) (Pleistocene to of Yemen)

Where: Yemen (16.6° N, 42.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 41.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kamaran Member (Abbas Formation), Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• reef limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. L. Cox. 1931. The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology. Geological Magazine 68:1-18 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55380: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 13.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Clava fasciata" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Cerithium" erythraeonense Lamarck 1822 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva miniacea Röding 1798 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus polygonus Gmelin 1791 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguiére 1792 cone shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Erosaria erosa Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Erronea caurica Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus (Canarium) gibberulus" = Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus
"Strombus (Canarium) gibberulus" = Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus Linnaeus 1758 conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices (Naticina) mammilla Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae