Site 10 (Pleistocene of Namibia)

Where: Erongo, Namibia (26.8° S, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 15.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Terrace of sand and broken shells at 1.5 m S.L., incised by the modern beach.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Davies. 1973. Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(3):719-765 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124050: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.02.2012, edited by Katherine Hendy

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Taxonomic list

• The shell-sample may be contaminated from modern specimens, as it was collected where washed out from the old on to the modern beach. Marginella capensis is included, it was not found on the beach, but Dr E. Scherz informed me that it was dredged in large numbers from the harbour.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella bicingulata Lamarck 1822 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Bullia callosa" = Buccinum callosum, "Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale
"Bullia callosa" = Buccinum callosum Wood 1828 true whelk
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale Dillwyn 1817 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail
Nassarius scopularcus Barnard 1959 snail
Bullia laevissima Gmelin 1791 snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella capensis Krauss 1848 margin shell
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Perna perna Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Barnea truncata Say 1822 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Tapes corrugatus, "Dosinia ? orbignyi" = Artemis orbignyi
Tapes corrugatus Gmelin 1791 venus clam
"Dosinia ? orbignyi" = Artemis orbignyi Dunker 1845 venus clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax serra Roding 1798 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma ? cumana" = Tellina cumana
"Macoma ? cumana" = Tellina cumana Costa 1829 tellin clam