Pointe de la Vieille: Late/Upper Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Astraea rugosa (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Bolma rugosus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys pesfelis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima lima (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca barbata Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus verrucosa
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora caespitosa (Linne 1767)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Astroides calycularis (Pallas 1766)
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 7.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:84937
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-18 05:54:22 Last modified:2012-07-11 02:46:56
Access level:the public Released:2008-11-18 05:54:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28505. H. Zibrowius. 1995. The "southern" Astroides calycularis in the Pleistocene of the northern Mediterranean - an indicator of climatic changes (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Geobios 28(1):9-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]