Also known as Reef 3352
Where: Kenya (4.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 39.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-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)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1986. Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Coral Reefs 4:183-196 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81036: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 27.05.2008, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium echinatum Lamarck 1822 cerith snail | |
Phalium sp. Link 1807 snail
Casmaria sp. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
"Cypraea scurra" = Mauritia scurra, "Cypraea globulus" = Pustularia globulus, "Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola
"Cypraea scurra" = Mauritia scurra Gmelin 1791 cowry | |
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"Strombus dentatus" = Tridentarius dentatus
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Olivella paxillus olive snail | |
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"Leptothyra filifera" = Collonista, "Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
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Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
Clanculus sp. Monfort 1810 top snail
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
Scutellastra sp. Adams and Adams 1854 limpet | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Plicatula imbricata scallop | |
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"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca, "Arca ventricosa" = Lamarcka ventricosa, Acar plicata
"Arca ventricosa" = Lamarcka ventricosa Lamarck 1819 clam | |
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