Houma (Pleistocene of Tonga)
Where: Tonga (21.2° S, 175.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 175.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. M. Ostergaard. 1935. Recent and fossil marine Mollusca of Tongatabu. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 131:1-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96474: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2010
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
"Antigona reticulata" = Periglypta reticulata
"Antigona reticulata" = Periglypta reticulata Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turbo crassus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) crassus, "Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
"Turbo crassus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) crassus Wood 1828 snail
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Trochus obeliscus, "Trochus incrassatus" = Trochus (Trochus) incrassatus, "Trochus tubiferus" = Infundibulum tubiferus
Trochus obeliscus top snail
"Trochus tubiferus" = Infundibulum tubiferus Kiener 1880 top snail | |
"Cypraea argus" = Arestorides argus, "Cypraea lynx" = Cypraea (Lyncina) lynx
"Cypraea argus" = Arestorides argus Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea lynx" = Cypraea (Lyncina) lynx Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Conus glans cone shell
Conus flavidus Lamarck 1810 cone shell |