Where: Kenya (4.3° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 39.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tridacna gigas U-Series open system age from nearby Msambweni quarry (14 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A) and from Diani Beach (2 m a.s.l.) of 100±4 ka (group C)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1981. Ecological stratification in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Palaeontology 24(3):609-646 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63177: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 08.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Symphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora "sp. gp. 3" Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
cf. Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Favia "sp. gp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral | |
cf. Leptastrea "sp. gp. 2" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |