Also known as Reef 3967
Where: Mayotte (12.8° S, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° S, 45.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 18.2-16.9 ka
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: G. F. Camoin, L. F. Montaggioni, and C. J. R. Braithwaite. 2004. Late glacial to post glacial sea levels in the western Indian Ocean. Marine Geology 206:119-146 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 89249: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.05.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Globothalamea | |