Lagoinhas, Santa Maria: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Portugal
collected by Callapez & Ferreira Soares
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ellobiidae
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Ovatella (Mysotella) myosotis
(Draparnaud 1805)
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Gastropoda
- Planaxidae
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Fossarus ambiguus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Bittium reticulatum
(da Costa 1778)
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Gastropoda
- Triphoridae
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Monophorus perversus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Vermetus sp.
Daudin 1800
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Charonia lampas
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Coralliophila meyendorffi
(Calcara 1845)
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| recombined as Coralliophila meyendorffii | |||||||
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Thais haemastoma
(Linnaeus 1767)
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| recombined as Stramonita haemostoma | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cystiscidae
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Gibberula sp.
Swainson 1840
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cantharus variegatus
(Gray 1839)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Mitrella broderipii
(Sowerby 1844)
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| recombined as Mitrella broderipi | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mangeliidae
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Mangelia sp.
(Loven 1846)
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| corrected as Cythara (Mangelia) | |||||||
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Mangelia costata
(Donovan 1803)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus ermineus
Born 1778
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Gastropoda
- Rissoidae
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Manzonia unifasciata
Dautzenburg 1889
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Cingula cingillus
(Montagu 1803)
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Alvania cancellata
(da Costa 1778)
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Alvania cimicoides
(Forbes 1844)
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Zebina vitrea
Adams 1854
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Rissoa similis
Scacchi 1836
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Melarhaphe neritoides
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Littorina neritoides | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Calliostoma zizyphinum
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Jujubinus striatus
(Linnaeus 1767)
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Jujubinus exasperatus
(Pennant 1777)
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Haliotidae
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Haliotis tuberculata
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Patellidae
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Patella ulyssiponensis
Gmelin 1791
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Myoforceps aristata
(Dillwyn 1817)
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| recombined as Lithophaga aristata | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys distorta
(da Costa 1778)
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| synonym of Talochlamys pusio | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Arca tetragona
Poli 1795
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| recombined as Tetrarca tetragona | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Ervilia castanea
(Montagu 1803)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita calyculata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Cardita (Cardita) calyculata | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Portugal |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 25.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° North, 25.1° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed Late Quaternary marine deposits. AGE: Pleistocene. No basis for age given in text, but presumably is based on macrofaunal biostratigraphy and stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Succession comprises cemented and bored carbonate sands, overlaind by 0.5 m beach sands with concentrations of shell debris. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Succession comprises cemented and bored carbonate sands, overlaind by 0.5 m beach sands with concentrations of shell debris. LITHIFICATION: | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Comprising species of rocky, sandy or algal substrates from the supralittoral to upper sublittoral marine environments. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collectors: | Callapez & Ferreira Soares |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Callapez & Ferreira Soares, c. 1990's. REPOSITORY: Housed in the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Coimbra (DCTUC). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive faunal list for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 122244 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-12-20 03:50:29 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-12-20 03:50:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38828. | P. Callapez and A. Ferreira Soares. 2000. Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations. Ciencias da Terra 14:313-322 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |