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)
• Tyrrhenian fauna; Level E
• 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 127571: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus Bronn 1831 barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Cancer sp. Linnaeus 1758 crab | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus perna" = Perna perna
"Mytilus perna" = Perna perna Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Cardium (Laevicardium) norvegium" = Laevicardium, "Cardium echinatum" = Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata
"Cardium (Laevicardium) norvegium" = Laevicardium cockle Cardium (Laevicardium) norvegium var. ponderosa
"Cardium echinatum" = Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata Linnaeus 1767 cockle Cardium echinatum var. dureignei
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Gastropoda | |
Odostomia doliolum snail | |
"Calyptra (Trochatella) trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
"Calyptra (Trochatella) trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
Littorina (Melaraphe) neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
"Murex (Tritonalia) erinaceus" = Ocenebra erinaceus, Murex (Tritonalia) purpruoides, Murex (Tritonalia) edwardsi
"Murex (Tritonalia) erinaceus" = Ocenebra erinaceus Linnaeus 1758 murex snail
Murex (Tritonalia) purpruoides murex snail
Murex (Tritonalia) edwardsi murex snail | |
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail | |
"Columbella (Mitrella) gervillei" = Mitrella
"Columbella (Mitrella) gervillei" = Mitrella snail | |
"Cymatium cutaceum" = Linatella caudata
"Cymatium cutaceum" = Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell | |
Patella intermedia Murray 1857 limpet |