Agadir 30m (Pleistocene of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 9.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 30 m, above current sea level

•Stearns and Thurber (1965) dated molluscs from Agadir to be 75,000 +-5 and 82,000 +-5. Note that U/Th ages from molluscs are controversial. Occhietti et al (2002; Quaternaire) indicate that a 20+m paleoshoreline previously described by Lecointre (1952) appears to be Ouljian.

• 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 127592: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Clanculus granoliratus, "Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta, "Trochus (Monodonta) sagittifera" = Monodonta, Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta top snail
"Trochus (Monodonta) sagittifera" = Monodonta top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Haustator) flammulata" = Haustator
"Turritella (Haustator) flammulata" = Haustator turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa reticulata true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella ambigua margin shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea Montfort 1808 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
"Amphiperas spelta" = Neosimnia spelta
"Amphiperas spelta" = Neosimnia spelta Linné 1758 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea lurida" = Luria lurida
"Cypraea lurida" = Luria lurida Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica marochiensis Gmelin 1791 moon snail
  -
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767 ark
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mytilus perna" = Perna perna, Mytilus edulis
"Mytilus perna" = Perna perna Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
subspecies "M. edulis var. uncinata"
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Ungulina rubra Roissy 1885 clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax trunculus Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata, "Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata, Venericardia ajar
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam
"Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda bicuspidata" = Nuculana
"Leda bicuspidata" = Nuculana pointed nut clam