Open AccessBEITRAG ZUR SUBFOSSILEN MOLLUSKENFAUNA DER ISLAS DEL ROSARIO, KOLUMBIEN
Author(s) -
Reinhard Kaufmann
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.1971.5.0.573
Subject(s) - subfossil , fauna , reef , coral reef , gastropoda , geography , ecology , biology , archaeology , holocene
In the subfossil, elevated coral reefs which form the Islas del Rosario, southwest of Cartagena (Colombia), 51 species of Gastropoda and 22 species of Pelecypoda were collected, all of them belonging to the recent Caribbean fauna. Even fragile shells could be obtained completely intact, which indicates the little age of these cliffs, as it has been estimated by two authors less than 10 000 years. An interesting species secured is Conus granulatus.