PBDB Collection

Mtwara Bay: Messinian, Tanzania

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae

	Acropora sp. Oken 1815	4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae

	Porites sp. Link 1807	2 specimens

	Goniopora planulata (Ehrenberg 1834)	4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae

	Fungiidae indet. Dana 1846	4 specimens

	Cycloseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849	1 specimen

	Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801	5 specimens

	Lithophyllon sp. Rehberg 1892	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae

	Pachyseris affinis Duncan 1880	4 specimens

	Pachyseris speciosa (Dana 1846)	3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

	Platygyra daedalea (Ellis and Solander 1786)	1 specimen

	Platygyra concentrica (Duncan 1880)	1 specimen

	Goniastrea edwardsi Chevalier 1971	1 specimen

	Oulophyllia crispa (Lamarck 1816)	1 specimen

	Hydnophyllia costata (Catullo 1856)	1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

	Turbinaria mesenterina (Lamarck 1816)	1 specimen
Heterolepidae

	Heterolepa sp. Franzenau 1884
Nummulitidae

	Operculina sp.
Amphisteginidae

	Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Globorotaliidae

	Globorotalia merotumida Blow and Banner 1965

	Globorotalia menardii (Parker et al. 1865)
Globigerinidae

	Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (Schwager 1866)

	Globigerina falconensis Blow 1959

	Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826

	Globigerinella cf. praesiphonifera Blow 1969

	Globoquadrina cf. altispira (Cushman and Jarvis 1936)

	Globoquadrina dehiscens (Chapman et al. 1934)

	Globigerinoides bisphericus Todd 1954

	Globigerinoides sacculifer (Brady 1877)

	Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839

	Globigerinoides extremus (Bolli and Bermudez 1965)

	Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady 1879)

	Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny 1839)

	Globigerinoides trilobus (Reuss 1850)

	Globigerinoides cf. tenellus (Parker 1958)

	Globigerinoides obliquus (Bolli 1957)

	Globigerinoides elongatus (d'Orbigny 1826)
unclassified

	Reticulofenestra rotaria Theodoridis 1984

	Reticulofenestra minuta Roth 1970
Coccolithophyceae

	Sphenolithus abies Deflandre 1954

	Sphenolithus moriformis (Bronnimann and Stradner 1960)

	Discoaster brouweri Tan Sin Hok 1927

	Discoaster quinqueramus Gartner 1969

	Discoaster variabilis Martini and Bramlette 1963

	Discoaster surculus Martini and Bramlette 1963
Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae

	Amaurolithus primus (Bukry and Percival 1971)

	Nicklithus amplificus (Bukry and Percival 1971)
see common names

Geography

Country:	Tanzania
Coordinates:	10.3° South, 40.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	12.0° South, 40.1° East (Wright 2013)

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Messinian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Messinian
Age range of interval:	7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Mikindani

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	"reef rocks"
Lithology description: low-relief biostromes
Environment:	reef, buildup or bioherm

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

biostratigraphic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	202214
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling	Enterer:	M. Krause
Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2019-07-01 08:39:07	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	authorizer only	Released:	2019-10-01 08:39:07
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

69296.

M. Reuter, F. R. Bosellini, A. F. Budd, S. Coric, W. E. Piller and M. Harzhauser. 2019. High coral reef connectivity across the Indian Ocean is revealed 6–7 Ma ago by a turbid-water scleractinian assemblage from Tanzania (Eastern Africa). Coral Reefs [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]