Cap Rhir level 60: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis Broderip and Broderip 1829
synonym of Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus
original and current combination Monodonta
Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Bittium lacteum
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Mesalia brevialis (Lamarck 1822)
Turritella (Haustator) triplicata
spelled with current rank as Haustator
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa reticulata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella (Mitrella) broderipi (Sowerby 1844)
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Cymatium cutaceum (Lamarck 1816)
synonym of Linatella caudata
Gastropoda - Capulidae
Capulus hungaricus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Capulus ungaricus
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetus cristatus Martin 1879
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triphora perversa (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium papillosum Poli 1781
recombined as Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 9.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.6° North, 9.9° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: level 60, I think this is 60m above present sea level; Tyrrhenian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:127573
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-18 06:35:49 Last modified:2012-05-17 15:37:49
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-18 06:35:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41616. G. Lecointre. 1952. Recherches sur le Neogene et le Quaternaire marins de la cote Atlantique du Maroc. Publications du Service geologique du Maroc 99(1,2):1-174 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]