Also known as Big Wave Bay rocky shore fauna
Where: Hong Kong (22.3° N, 114.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Fossils are encrusted as a thick accumulation of shell material accreted in growth position onto an outcrop of rhyolite and protected from weathering by an overhanging slab"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; hardground siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Not data about collection techniques provided.
Primary reference: A. M. Davis, J.C. Aitchison, P.G. Flodd, B.S. Morton, R.G.V. Baker and R.J. Haworth. 2000. Late Holocene higher sea-level indicators from the South China coast. Marine Geology 171:1-5 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35033: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Saccostrea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata
"Saccostrea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster |