Where: Cape Verde (16.7° N, 22.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 22.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• older terraces 340-320 ka, younger terraces 129-110 ka

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Zazo, J. L. Goy, C. J. Dabrio, V. Soler, C. Hillaire-Marcel, B. Ghaleb, J. A. Gonzalez-Delgado, T. Bardaji, and A. Cabero. 2007. Quaternary marine terraces on Sal Island (Cape Verde archipelago). Quaternary Science Reviews 26:876-893 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89617: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2009

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