Dar es Soltan: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura haemastoma
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa informal sp. A Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella informal sp. C Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassa (Arcularia) circumcincta
spelled with current rank as Nassarius (Arcularia)
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassis (Semicassis) saburon
original and current combination Semicassis
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella reticulata
Fissurella nubecula
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus (Calliostoma) conuloides
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis Broderip and Broderip 1829
synonym of Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Patella intermedia Murray 1857
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima subauriculata (Montagu 1808)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Cerastoderma edule
Cardium tuberculatum Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax informal sp. A Linnaeus 1758
Donax vittatus da Costa 1778
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata (da Costa 1778)
recombined as Spisula subtruncata
Mactra corallina
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 9.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 9.8° West
Geographic resolution:local area
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: Stearns and Thurber (1965) dated molluscs from this horizon to be greater than 300,000. Note that U/Th ages from molluscs are controversial.
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:127593
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-18 10:51:33 Last modified:2012-05-30 16:39:38
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-18 10:51:33
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]