Imsouane: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Pholas dactylus Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Helcion pellucidus
Patella cf. conspicua
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus mediterraneus Hwass 1792
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Clavatula sacerdos (Reeve 1845)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura nicklesi
subspecies "P. nicklesi var. imsouanensis"
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 9.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.8° North, 9.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 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:127577
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-18 06:49:04 Last modified:2012-05-18 14:11:03
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-18 06:49:04
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]