ammonites
Site 38 A, Mombasa-Wambeni (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as Reef 3352

Where: Kenya (4.2° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 39.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Tridacna gigas U-Series open system age from nearby Kikambala quarry (15 m a.s.l.) and Shelly Beach Quarry (12 m a.s.l.) of 120±4 ka (group A)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• back-reef region
• Halimeda banks with small patches of fine-grained calcarenite and clumps of corals

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. A. Crame. 1986. Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast. Coral Reefs 4:183-196 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81080: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 03.06.2008