Also known as Reef 3255
Where: Hawaii (21.4° N, 158.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 158.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waimanalo Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• ~119 ka (coral sample at Kahe Point), last interglacial
• 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 89401: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Littoraria pintado periwinkle | |
"Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis, "Cypraea maculifera" = Mauritia maculifera
"Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis Linnaeus 1758 cowry listed as C. captoserpentis
"Cypraea maculifera" = Mauritia maculifera Schilder 1932 cowry | |
Conus ebraeus Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sandvichensis oyster |