Agadir 30m: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Yetus gracilis
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Leda bicuspidata
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synonym of Nuculana | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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subspecies "M. edulis var. uncinata" | ||||||||||
Mytilus perna
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Perna perna | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima (Mantellum) inflata
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca (Fossularca) lactea
Linnaeus 1767
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita calyculata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Cardita (Cardita) calyculata | ||||||||||
Venericardia antiquata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Cardites antiquata | ||||||||||
Venericardia ajar
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax trunculus
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Ungulinidae
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Ungulina rubra
Roissy 1885
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Marginella ambigua
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Columbella rustica
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Nassa reticulata
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Gastropoda
- Triviidae
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Trivia europaea
(Montfort 1808)
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recombined as Trivia (Trivia) europaea | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea lurida
Linnaeus 1758
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recombined as Luria lurida | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Ovulidae
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Amphiperas spelta
(Linné 1758)
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recombined as Neosimnia spelta | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica marochiensis
(Gmelin 1791)
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella (Haustator) flammulata
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spelled with current rank as Haustator | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi
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Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus
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original and current combination Monodonta | ||||||||||
Trochus (Monodonta) sagittifera
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original and current combination Monodonta | ||||||||||
Clanculus granoliratus
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Fissurellidae
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Fissurella reticulata
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Fissurella nubecula
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Gastropoda
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Cyclostoma scrobiculatum
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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] |