Where: Spain (28.2° N, 15.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 15.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Interpreted by Lecointre et al (1967) as Tyrrhenian I=Ouljian (Late Pleistocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From fossiliferous sandy, which is overlain by a deposit containing pieces of lava and terrestrial molluscs. Fossils extend to an elevation of 8 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lecointre & Richards in 1962-1963; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: G. Lecointre and H.G. Richards, 1962-1963. REPOSITORY: Laboratoire de Malacologie, Paris Museum (MNHN).

Primary reference: G. Lecointre, K. J. Tinkler, and H. G. Richards. 1967. The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 119(8):325-344 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127359: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2012

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