ammonites
Barbers Point, Oahu (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Reef 3255

Where: Hawaii (21.3° N, 158.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 158.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• ~119 ka (coral sample at Kahe Point), last interglacial

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• reef and near-reef deposits
• limestones and conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Kosuge. 1969. Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands. Bulletin of the National Science Museum 12(4):783-794 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2009, edited by Mark Uhen