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 81013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 26.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Gastropoda | |
Phasianella sp. Lamarck 1804 snail | |
"Tectus mauritianus" = Tectus (Tectus) mauritianus, Cantharidus sp.
"Tectus mauritianus" = Tectus (Tectus) mauritianus Gmelin 1791 top snail
Cantharidus sp. Monfort 1810 top snail | |
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"Strombus gibberulus" = Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus
"Strombus gibberulus" = Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus Linnaeus 1758 conch | |
Nassarius arcularis snail
Nassarius echinata snail
Nassarius albescens Dunker 1846 snail
Nassarius pullus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Polynices tumidus" = Polinices
"Polynices tumidus" = Polinices moon snail | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Codakia sp. Scopoli 1777 clam
Ctena sp. Mörch 1860 clam | |
Fragum fragum Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Jactellina clathrata Deshayes 1835 tellin clam
Scissulina dispar Conrad 1837 tellin clam |