Also known as Reef 3255
Where: Hawaii (21.3° N, 157.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 157.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waimanalo Formation, Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• age from coral samples 134-113 ka
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Kosuge. 1969. Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands. Bulletin of the National Science Museum 12(4):783-794 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89303: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Mitra mitra" = Mitra (Mitra) mitra
"Mitra mitra" = Mitra (Mitra) mitra Linnaeaus 1758 mitre shell | |
Conus abbreviatus cone shell
"Conus leopardus" = Conus vexillum Gmelin 1791 cone shell
Conus rattus Hwass in BruguiƩre 1792 cone shell
Conus catus Hwass in BruguiƩre 1792 cone shell | |
"Lambis chiragra" = Harpago chiragra
"Lambis chiragra" = Harpago chiragra Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
"Cypraea maculifera" = Mauritia maculifera, "Cypraea erosa" = Naria erosa, "Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, "Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis, "Cypraea granulata" = Nucleolaria granulata
"Cypraea maculifera" = Mauritia maculifera Schilder 1932 cowry
"Cypraea erosa" = Naria erosa Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis Linnaeus 1758 cowry listed as C. captoserpentis
"Cypraea granulata" = Nucleolaria granulata Pease 1862 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
"Septifer vaughani" = Septifer (Septifer) excisus
"Septifer vaughani" = Septifer (Septifer) excisus Weigmann 1837 mussel | |
"Cardium orbita" = Vasticardium orbita
"Cardium orbita" = Vasticardium orbita Reeve 1845 cockle |