Where: Western Cape, South Africa (33.9° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 18.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Kensley and J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(6):141-225 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118319: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 12.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turbo cidaris snail | |
Oxystele sinensis top snail | |
Diodora elevata snail
Fissurella robusta snail | |
? Nassarius litorafontis snail
? Fusus faurei snail | |
? Turris nigrovitta turrid | |
Nucella praecingulata Haughton 1932 murex snail | |
? Hespererato oppenheimeri Kensley and Pether 1986 snail | |
Patella hoffmani n. sp.
Patella hoffmani n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
? Arca halmyrus ark | |
Hinnites sp. Defrance 1821 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp.
Isognomon gariesensis n. sp. Kensley and Pether 1986 oyster | |
Striostrea margaritacea Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
Chamelea krigei venus clam | |
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Donax haughtoni Carrington and Kensley 1969 clam | |