Beau site level I (Pleistocene to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.6° N, 7.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 7.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Level I; Tyrrhenian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127572: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Pectunculus violacescens" = Glycymeris, "Pectunculus glycimeris" = Glycymeris, "Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa
"Pectunculus violacescens" = Glycymeris clam
"Pectunculus glycimeris" = Glycymeris clam
"Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa Linnaeus 1767 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Nassa incrassata" = Nassarius incrassatus
"Nassa incrassata" = Nassarius incrassatus Müller 1773 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa reticulata true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Cymatium nodiferum triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica catena" = Euspira catena, "Natica josephinia" = Neverita josephinia
"Natica catena" = Euspira catena da Costa 1778 moon snail
"Natica josephinia" = Neverita josephinia Risso 1826 moon snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta top snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella intermedia Murray 1857 limpet