Guadalmansa, Malaga: Pliocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arca (Arca) tetragona Poli 1795
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca (Striarca) lactea
Barbatia (Barbatia) modioloides
Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata (Linnaeus 1758)
Arca (Arca) noae (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Arca noae
Barbatia (Acar) clathrata
original and current combination Acar
Anadara (Anadara) diluvii (Lamarck 1805)
recombined as Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Glycymeris glycymeris
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata
subsp. bimaculata
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) insubrica
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) inflata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala
synonym of Limopsis
subsp. cancellata
Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita (Brocchi 1814)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 5.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 5.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:71911
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-16 01:59:54 Last modified:2007-05-16 05:33:40
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-16 01:59:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24310.1% 4680M. C. Lozano Francisco, J. L. Vera Pelaez, and A. Guerra-Merchan. 1993. Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) del Plioceno de la provincia de Malaga, Espana [Pliocene Arcoida from Malaga, Spain]. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 3:157-188 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]