Where: Seychelles (9.4° S, 46.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 46.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Esprit Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1969; reposited in the BMNH
• June-September 1969, small additional quantity in 1973
Primary reference: J. D. Taylor. 1978. Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll. Palaeontology 21(1):1-30 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80964: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 24.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium morum cerith snail | |
Cerithidea sp. Swainson 1840 horn snail
Terebralia palustris Linnaeus 1767 horn snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Dosinia exilium venus clam
Dosinia nanus venus clam | |
Hippopus hippopus Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
"Tellinella sp." = Tellina (Tellinella)
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