Also known as Reef 3965
Where: Seychelles (4.3° S, 55.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 55.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 140-120 ka (Th/U) last interglacial stage
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: L. F. Montaggioni and C. T. Hoang. 1988. The last interglacial high sea level in the granitic Seychelles, Indian Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 64:79-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 89247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861 worm shell
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle | |
Anthozoa | |
Pocilloporidae indet. Gray 1842 stony coral | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Poritidae indet. Gray 1840 stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Foraminifera | |