Also known as Reef 3352
Where: Kenya (4.2° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 39.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• 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: perireef or subreef; 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 81082: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 03.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Tectus mauritianus" = Tectus (Tectus) mauritianus, Clanculus flosculus, Trochus flammulatus, Trochus maculatus
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"Leptothyra filifera" = Collonista, "Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
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"Strombus gibberulus" = Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus
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