Where: Spain (36.7° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 4.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Late Pleistocene raised beach terraces on Jurassic limestones and Permo-Triassic sandstones. THICKNESS: 30 cm, on raised beach 0.9-1.2 m above sea level. AGE: Late Pleistocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Vera-Peláez et al.
• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors. REPOSITORY: Museo Municpal de Paleontogía, Malaga.
Primary reference: J. L. Vera-Peláez, M. C. Lozano-Francisco, J. Ramos Fernández and Y. M. Cortéz Sánchez. 2004. Molluscos del Tirreniense (Pleistoceno Superior) de la Playa la Araña-Cala de Moral (Málaga). Revista Española de Paleontología 19(2):251-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76577: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Pecten) maximus" = Pecten maxima
"Pecten (Pecten) maximus" = Pecten maxima Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) sp. da Costa 1778 clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Chamelea gallina Linneus 1758 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium (Thericium) rupestre Risso 1826 snail | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
Rissoa variabilis snail | |
Murex sp. Linnaeus 1758 murex snail | |
Conus mediterraneus Hwass 1792 cone shell | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bittium reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail | |
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Echinoidea | |
Echinidae indet. Gray 1825 sea urchin |