Locality 7a, Rubicon plain: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Loripes sp. Poli 1791
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium papillosum Poli 1781
recombined as Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Ungulina cf. rubra Roissy 1885
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella nubecua
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Monodonta tamsi
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Cerithium rupestre Risso 1826
recombined as Cerithium (Thericium) rupestre
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus mediterraneus Hwass 1792
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 28.9° North, 13.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.9° North, 13.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Ouljian STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 5 m beach (5m above high tide)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: hard brittle limestone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:128329
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-06-06 08:24:32 Last modified:2012-06-05 17:31:30
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-06-06 08:24:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41451. G. Lecointre, K. J. Tinkler, and H. G. Richards. 1967. The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 119(8):325-344 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]