Where: Eritrea (15.2° N, 40.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 40.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 125 +- 7 ka
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. H. Bruggemann, R. T. Buffler, M. M. M. Guillaume, R. C. Walter, R. Cosel, B. N. Ghebretensae, and S. M. Berhe. 2004. Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 203(3):179-206 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 80718: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 06.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster reticulatis sand dollar
Clypeaster humilis Leske 1778 sand dollar | |
Maretia planulata Lamarck 1816 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccostrea sp. Dolfuss and Dautzenberg 1920 oyster | |
Codakia tigerina Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Tellina remies Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Callista florida Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Circe rufigera venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Volema paradisiaca snail | |
Tibia insulaechorab true conch
Strombus fasciatus Born 1778 conch |