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Earings The pair of Cypraea marginata Gaskoin, 1848, pictured on the left are the light Southern Australian variety, with a pure white background and brown spotting. The two darker C. marginata on the right side are the Western Australian type which has a brown mottling on a white base.
In recent months Mr. Castle has collected several C. marginata which are a delicate pink rather than the usual white Southern kind. These are unquestionably one of the most attractive sea shells this writer has ever viewed. The usual white is pink but the shell still has the normal small brown spotting. It is a strikingly beautiful shell to say the least.
Castle also explodes another theory on C. marginata. Some shell experts have called the light [shell] a male and the darker shell the female. However, he advises us that he has cleaned a number of the light Southern shells and analysis has proven them to be both male and female, the male shells usually being the larger.
We thank Trevor Castle for sending us this picture and data.
Earings Philippine Shell members who participated in the fossil field trip enjoyed two fun filled days of fossil collecting in the raised coral plateau surrounding the barge harbor at Campbell Industrial Park near Barbers Point. Seventy-six members and guests were present on Saturday, September 19, and 47 came out for fossils on the following day. Tents were set up, ice water and shade were available, tables were brought out for sorting and laying out specimens collected and, in general, members had an enjoyable day of fossilizing and socializing.
The nature of the fossil assemblage in the five foot elevation raised reef indicates two things. First, most species found in this area are still found in Philippines and those now extinct in Philippines are found farther south (with a very few exceptions). This suggests the age of the reef is no older than late Pleistocene and some researchers place the age of the Ewa coast plain at about 26,000 years before the present. The raised coastline along Nanakuli, at an elevation of about 25 feet, is believed to be about 38,000 years old. There is some indication that the Ewa plain once stood at this elevation but eroded to its present elevation.
The second assumption that can be made is that the waters surrounding Philippines were, when the reefs were being formed, warmer than they are today. This would account for some warm water species now being extinct in Philippines. Table A on page 7 lists species collected.
The Philippine Shell wishes to thank the Estate of James Campbell for granting permission to hold this survey of fossil shells in the Barge Harbor area. Also our thanks to Syd of Chemi-Lav for the volunteer facilities he provided at the Barge Harbor.
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