Also known as Reef 3806
Where: Seychelles (9.4° S, 46.4° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 46.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aldabra Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 125 000 years (Thompson and Walton 1972)
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1969; reposited in the BMNH
• June-September 1969, small additional quantity in 1973 m, altogether 300 specimens found in Aldabra Limestone
Primary reference: J. D. Taylor. 1978. Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll. Palaeontology 21(1):1-30 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81006: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 26.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera, "Acropora formosa" = Acropora muricata
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Acropora formosa" = Acropora muricata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca
"Barbatia fusca" = Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca Bruguiére 1792 clam | |
Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Trapezium sp. Mühlfeld 1811 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Cerithium echinatum Lamarck 1822 cerith snail | |
Trochus maculatus, "Tectus mauritianus" = Tectus (Tectus) mauritianus
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"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758 snail most abundant Gastropod
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