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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia, Pecten jacobaeus
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Pecten jacobaeus scallop | |
"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 | |
"Nassa incrassata" = Nassarius incrassatus
"Nassa incrassata" = Nassarius incrassatus Müller 1773 snail | |
Nassa reticulata true whelk | |
Cymatium nodiferum triton shell | |
"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 | |
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta top snail | |
Patella intermedia Murray 1857 limpet |