Rio del Padrón, Estepona (Pliocene of Spain)

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: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Early Zanclean or Early Pliocene II of Guerra Merchán et al. (2002). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within 15 m thick section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Not specificially stated in text. Siliciclastic, but could be from nearshore-deep water range of settings.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clayey sand with dispersed skeletal material. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Landau & Marquet

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Landau and Marquet. REPOSITORY: Landau personal collection, Marquet personal collection, and possivly the Institut. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.

Primary reference: B. Landau, R. Marquet, and M. Grigis. 2003. The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda. Paleontos 3:1-87 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80557: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.04.2008, edited by Katherine Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for major groups of gastropods covered in taxonomic treatments. Other major components of fauna (bivalvia) and minor components (e.g. coral) are not included. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and use of species and subgenus resolution assignments.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ocinebrina imbricata2, Dermomurex (Trialatella) jani2, Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) campanii2
Ocinebrina imbricata2 Brocchi 1814 murex snail
Dermomurex (Trialatella) jani2 Doderlein 1862 murex snail
Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) campanii2 De Stefani and Pantanelli 1878 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius oblongus3, Nassarius angulatus3, Nassarius bugellensis3, Nassarius serraticosta3, Nassarius productus3, Nassarius bollenensis3
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Tonna galea1
Tonna galea1 Linnaeus 1758 tun shell
1Landau et al. 2004; 2Landau et al. 2007; 3Landau et al. 2009