Agadir 30m: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Yetus gracilis
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda bicuspidata
synonym of Nuculana
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
subspecies "M. edulis var. uncinata"
Mytilus perna (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Perna perna
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Mantellum) inflata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
Venericardia antiquata (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Cardites antiquata
Venericardia ajar
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax trunculus Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Ungulina rubra Roissy 1885
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella ambigua
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella rustica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa reticulata
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Trivia europaea (Montfort 1808)
recombined as Trivia (Trivia) europaea
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea lurida Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Luria lurida
Gastropoda - Ovulidae
Amphiperas spelta (Linné 1758)
recombined as Neosimnia spelta
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica marochiensis (Gmelin 1791)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) flammulata
spelled with current rank as Haustator
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi
Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus
original and current combination Monodonta
Trochus (Monodonta) sagittifera
original and current combination Monodonta
Clanculus granoliratus
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella reticulata
Fissurella nubecula
Gastropoda
Cyclostoma scrobiculatum
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 9.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.4° North, 9.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:82 ± 5 to 75 ± 5 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 30 m, above current sea level

Stearns and Thurber (1965) dated molluscs from Agadir to be 75,000 +-5 and 82,000 +-5. Note that U/Th ages from molluscs are controversial. Occhietti et al (2002; Quaternaire) indicate that a 20+m paleoshoreline previously described by Lecointre (1952) appears to be Ouljian.
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:127592
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-18 10:45:07 Last modified:2012-05-31 11:24:49
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-18 10:45:07
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]