Twin Cays, mollusc facies (Pleistocene of Belize)

Where: Belize (16.8° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 88.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 95-79 ka?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• mudbanks, Thalassia facies
• molluscs in muddy sands with occasional corals

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. G. MacIntyre and M. A. Toscano. 2004. The Pleistocene foundation below Twin Cays, Belize, central America. Atoll Research Bulletin 511:1-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88828: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Manicina areolata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812