Msambweni Quarry, Site 31, Face C, Horizon B (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.5° S, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 39.5° 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 of 120±4 ka (group A)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• back-reef small coral patches and scattered coral colonies (Porites-faviid assemblage), and a number of large banks of Galaxea clavus 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 63187: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 08.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. gp. 2"
Porites "sp. gp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp.
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Galaxea clavus" = Galaxea astreata
"Galaxea clavus" = Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp., Lobophyllia corymbosa
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia "sp. gp. 1"
Favia "sp. gp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora sp., "Goniastrea incrustans" = Coelastrea aspera, Goniastrea sp., Platygyra sp., Platygyra lamellina
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
"Goniastrea incrustans" = Coelastrea aspera Verrill 1866 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
4 + 1 cf.
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral