Where: Vanuatu (18.8° S, 169.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 169.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit (Tenmaru Limestone? - Pleistocene). AGE: Quaternary in Abrard (1946), presumably on the basis of stratigraphic position, and foraminiferal and macrofossil affinities to other dated Indo-Pacific faunas (e.g. Fiji). Assigned here to a Pleistocene interval.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with calcite

Collected by de la Rüe in 1938

• COLLECTOR: E. A. de la Rüe (1938). REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, possibly MNHN, Paris.

Primary reference: R. Abrard. 1946. Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides. Annales de Paléontologie 32:1-112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77905: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.01.2008

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