La Digue Island (Pleistocene of Seychelles)

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
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia cf. favus" = Dipsastraea favus
"Favia cf. favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus cf. virgatus Gmelin 1792 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Morula granulata Duclos 1832 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
Littorina scabra Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861 worm shell
 Patellida - Nacellidae
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
"Nerita plicata" = Nerita (Ritena) plicata Linnaeus 1758 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Tridacna sp. Bruguière 1797 cockle