Diani Quarry, Site 30, Face A, Horizon B (Pleistocene of Kenya)

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

• back-reef small composite coral patches and scattered coral colonies in a Halimeda-rich calcarenite

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
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Symphyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora "sp. gp. 3" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
cf. Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia "sp. gp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
cf. Leptastrea "sp. gp. 2" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral