Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 167.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an undifferentiated reef limestones. AGE: Pleistocene, on the basis of macrofossil and foraminiferal biostratigraphy, and stratigraphic position. Very well-preserved ahermatypic corals (Flabellum spp.) collected in 2006 from Kere 2 have been dated by the Uranium/Thorium method and established an age of 232 +/- 10 ka. The same species of coral from the overlying deposit of Kere 1 gave an age of 133 +/- 5.5 ka. These reliable benchmarks suggest that the Kere sequence was deposited during the warmer Marine Isotope Stages (also named OIS for "Oxygen Isotope Stage") MIS 7 (Kere 2) and MIS 5 (Kere 1). (Lozouet et al., 2011). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: The classic Kere Shellbed (Kere 1)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, shelly/skeletal, silty, calcareous gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by T.R. Waller, J. Bolango, W.C. Blow; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors, including: Waller, Bolango, and Blow. 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 78043: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.01.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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