Bamburi cement quarry, 8b (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as Reef 3352

Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 39.7° 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 Kikambala quarry (15 m a.s.l.) and Shelly Beach Quarry (12 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• shallow open water Acropora-dominated assemblages

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Focus on ecological succession in reefs

Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1980. Succession and diversity in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya Coast. Palaeontology 23(1):1-37 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44905: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Gyrosmilia sp.
Gyrosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora "sp. 3", Acropora "sp. 7", Acropora "sp. 8", Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus, Alveopora sp.
Acropora "sp. 3" Oken 1815 stony coral
sp. 3, 6, 7, 8
Acropora "sp. 7" Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora "sp. 8" Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
sp. 6 - conferta group, which is a synonym of hycinthus
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
sp. gp. 2