ammonites
Navaka River, Espiritu Santo (Pleistocene of Vanuatu)

Where: Vanuatu (15.6° S, 166.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 166.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Age estimate: 25,280 ± 400 yrs. B.P.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified sandstone and unlithified siltstone

• The ahermatypic coral fauna ... is one typical of sandy or silty bottoms in moderately deep water (200 m).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Material collected by Ladd

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1984. Notes on Indo-Pacific Scleractinian Corals. Part 10. Late Pleistocene ahermatypic corals from Vanuatu. Pacific Science 38(3):205-219 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84452: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.10.2008