Where: Seychelles (9.4° S, 46.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 46.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Takamaka Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 125 kyr
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1969; reposited in the BMNH
• June-September 1969, small additional quantity in 1973
Primary reference: J. D. Taylor. 1978. Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll. Palaeontology 21(1):1-30 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80965: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 24.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
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Porites nigrescens Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Bivalvia | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam | |
Cardita variegata Bruguière 1792 clam | |
Ctena fibula clam | |
Tridacna maxima, "Tridacna gigas" = Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas
Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle
"Tridacna gigas" = Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Pinguitellina robusta Hanley 1844 tellin clam
Scissulina dispar Conrad 1837 tellin clam | |
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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Trochus radiatus, Trochus maculatus, Clanculus cf. limbatus, "Tectus mauritianus" = Tectus (Tectus) mauritianus
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"Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola
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Ulvophyceae | |
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