Where: Spain (36.4° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Early Piacenzian or Middle Pliocene of Guerra Merchán et al. (2002). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, gray, sandy claystone
• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated specifically in text, but a shallow marine siliciciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clays, indurated towards top. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and facies description.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Landau & Marquet
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Landau and Marquet. REPOSITORY: Landau personal collection, Marquet personal collection, and possivly the Institut. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.
Primary reference: B. Landau, R. Marquet, and M. Grigis. 2003. The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda. Paleontos 3:1-87 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80563: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.04.2008, edited by Katherine Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for major groups of gastropods covered in taxonomic treatments. Other major components of fauna (bivalvia) and minor components (e.g. coral) are not included. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and use of species and subgenus resolution assignments.
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unclassified |
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Gastropoda |
Trochoidea - Turbinidae |
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Trochoidea - Solariellidae |
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Trochoidea - Trochidae |
Phorcus richardi, Callumbonella paolucciae, Clanculus verai, Gibbula magus, Gibbula pliosubcinctus, Jujubinus montagui, Jujubinus annamarieae, Microgaza fischeri, Microgaza cuadrae, Calliostoma miliaris, Calliostoma granulatum, Calliostoma opisthostenus, Calliostoma scutiformis
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Lepetellida - Addisoniidae |
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Lepetellida - Lepetellidae |
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Lepetellida - Fissurellidae |
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Lepetellida - Haliotidae |
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Lepetellida - Scissurellidae |
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Lepetellida - Anatomidae |
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Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae |
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Neogastropoda - Muricidae |
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Neogastropoda - Nassariidae |
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Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae |
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Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae |
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Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae |
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Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae |
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Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae |
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Thecosomata - Limacinidae |
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Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae |
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Cocculinoidea - Cocculinidae |
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