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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella bicingulata Lamarck 1822 turret shell | |
"Bullia callosa" = Buccinum callosum, "Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale
"Bullia callosa" = Buccinum callosum Wood 1828 true whelk
"Bullia digitalis" = Buccinum digitale Dillwyn 1817 true whelk | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail
Nassarius scopularcus Barnard 1959 snail
Bullia laevissima Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Marginella capensis Krauss 1848 margin shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Perna perna Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Choromytilus meridionalis mussel | |
Barnea truncata Say 1822 clam | |
Tapes corrugatus, "Dosinia ? orbignyi" = Artemis orbignyi
Tapes corrugatus Gmelin 1791 venus clam
"Dosinia ? orbignyi" = Artemis orbignyi Dunker 1845 venus clam | |
Donax serra Roding 1798 clam | |
"Macoma ? cumana" = Tellina cumana
"Macoma ? cumana" = Tellina cumana Costa 1829 tellin clam |