Campo de Tiro, Balearic Island: Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita senegalensis
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes senegalensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Acar plicata (Dillwyn 1817)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus bubonius
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus testudinarius Martini 1773
recombined as Conus (Chelyconus) testudinarius
Gastropoda - Perissityidae
Cantharus viverratus
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 2.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 2.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: foreshore facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:176765
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-03-01 03:11:39 Last modified:2016-03-01 03:11:39
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-06-01 03:11:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58310. C. Zazo, J. L. Goy, C. J. Dabrio, T. Bardaj, C. Hillaire-Marcel, B. Ghaleb, J.-A. Gonzalez-Delgado and V. Soler. 2001. Pleistocene raised marine terraces of the Spanish Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: Records of coastal uplift, sea-level highstands and climate changes. Marine Geology 194(1-2):103-133 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]