Atalaya, Malaga (Pliocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (36.5° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.3° 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 71913: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris" = Glycymeris glycymeris, Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata
"Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris" = Glycymeris glycymeris Linnaeus 1758 clam
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata clam
subsp. bimaculata
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita Brocchi 1814 clam