Where: Seychelles (4.3° S, 55.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 55.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. E. Johnson and B. G. Baarli. 2005. Erosion and burial of granite rocky shores in the recent and Late Pleistocene of the Seychelles Islands: physical and biological perspectives. Journal of Coastal Research 21(5):867-879 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 107991: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Favia cf. favus" = Dipsastraea favus
"Favia cf. favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
Littorina scabra Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
Morula granulata Duclos 1832 murex snail | |
Conus cf. frigidus cone shell | |
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861 worm shell | |
Trochus cf. virgatus Gmelin 1792 top snail | |
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Nerita undulata, "Nerita plicata" = Nerita (Ritena) plicata
Nerita undulata snail
"Nerita plicata" = Nerita (Ritena) plicata Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Cellana cf. radiata limpet |