Where: Spain (28.1° N, 15.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 15.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Interpreted by Lecointre et al (1967) as Tyrrhenian I=Ouljian (Late Pleistocene). Meco et al (2002) dated lava flows above and below an 85m asl beach deposit at Agaete as early Pleistocene, Isotope stage 63; see col.#128383

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•STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From deposit about 2 m in height.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lecointre in 1962, 1964, 1966; 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 127361: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2012

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