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