Msambweni Quarry, Site 31, Face A, Horizon C: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Montipora sp.
Blainville 1830
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Favia informal sp. gp. 1
Oken 1815
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.5° South, 39.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° South, 39.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 120 ± 4 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Tridacna gigas U-series open system age of 120±4 ka (group A) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | framestone | ||
| Lithology description: back-reef small coral patches and scattered coral colonies (Porites-faviid assemblage), and a number of large banks of Galaxea clavus in a Halimeda-rich calcarenite | |||
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial | ||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63186 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Kosnik | Enterer: | M. Kosnik |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 81094 | ||
| Created: | 2006-08-08 20:48:20 | Last modified: | 2012-04-27 03:48:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-08 20:48:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18189. | J. A. Crame. 1981. Ecological stratification in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Palaeontology 24(3):609-646 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] |
Secondary references:
| 41322 | G. Accordi, M. Brilli, F. Carbone and M. Voltaggio. 2010. The raised coral reef complex of the Kenyan coast: Tridacna gigas U-series dates and geological implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences 58:97-114 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |