Padron, Malaga (Pliocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (36.4° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.4° 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 71909: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara (Anadara) diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam
Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bathyarca "sp. 2" Kobelt 1891 clam
Bathyarca "sp. 1" Kobelt 1891 clam
"Arca (Arca) noae" = Arca noae Linnaeus 1758 ark
"Barbatia (Acar) clathrata" = Acar miniature ark
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita, "Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis, "Limopsis (Pectunculina) aradasi" = Limopsis
Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita Brocchi 1814 clam
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis clam
subsp. cancellata
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) aradasi" = Limopsis clam