Where: Spain (36.4° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. C. Lozano Francisco, J. L. Vera Pelaez, and A. Guerra-Merchan. 1993. Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) del Plioceno de la provincia de Malaga, Espana [Pliocene Arcoida from Malaga, Spain]. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 3:157-188 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71908: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris" = Glycymeris glycymeris, Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata, Glycymeris (Glycymeris) insubrica
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris" = Glycymeris glycymeris Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata Linnaeus 1758 clam |