Diani Quarry, Site 30, Face B, Horizon B (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.3° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 39.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Tridacna gigas U-Series open system age from nearby Msambweni quarry (14 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A) and from Diani Beach (2 m a.s.l.) of 100±4 ka (group C)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• back-reef small composite coral patches and scattered coral colonies (Porites-faviid assemblage) in a Halimeda-rich calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1981. Ecological stratification in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Palaeontology 24(3):609-646 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63179: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 08.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora "sp. gp. 3"
Acropora "sp. gp. 3" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp., Porites "sp. gp. 2"
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites "sp. gp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Galaxea clavus" = Galaxea astreata
"Galaxea clavus" = Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora exesa, Platygyra sp., Platygyra lamellina, Echinopora sp., Goniastrea sp.
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Echinopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
4 + 2 cf.
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia "sp. gp. 1"
Favia "sp. gp. 1" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp.
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
cf. Plesiastrea sp., Plesiastrea versipora
cf. Plesiastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral