Msambweni Quarry, Site 31, Face C, Horizon C (Pleistocene of Kenya)
Where: Kenya (4.5° S, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 39.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tridacna gigas U-series open system age of 120±4 ka (group A)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone
• back-reef small coral patches and scattered coral colonies (Porites-faviid assemblage), and a number of large banks of Galaxea clavus in a Halimeda-rich calcarenite
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1981. Ecological stratification in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Palaeontology 24(3):609-646 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63188: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 08.08.2006