528A (300-400 ft), Funafuti Atoll (Pleistocene of Tuvalu)

Where: Tuvalu (8.5° S, 179.2° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 179.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Pleistoce, on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list from several beds within this section of drill core, from 300-400 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate facies. Shallow water. No paleoenvironmental data presented.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, presumably carbonate. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Royal Society & Edgeworth in 1897; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Royal Society and T.W. Edgeworth, 1897. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: H. S. Ladd. 1966. Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 531:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78036: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COEVERAGE: Representative, but not exhaustive for gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication with relatively modern nomenclature, subgenus- and species-level identifications. IDENTIFIER: H. S. Ladd.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola
Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola Linnaeus 1758 cowry