Where: Morocco (30.6° N, 9.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 9.9° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• level 60, I think this is 60m above present sea level; 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 127573: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta, Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi
"Trochus (Monodonta) lineatus" = Monodonta top snail
Trochus (Calliostoma) chemnitzi top snail | |
"Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis" = Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus
"Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis" = Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Bittium lacteum cerith snail | |
"Turritella (Haustator) triplicata" = Haustator, Mesalia brevialis
"Turritella (Haustator) triplicata" = Haustator turret shell
Mesalia brevialis Lamarck 1822 turret shell | |
Triphora perversa Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Capulus hungaricus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Columbella (Mitrella) broderipi Sowerby 1844 snail | |
Nassa reticulata true whelk | |
"Cymatium cutaceum" = Linatella caudata
"Cymatium cutaceum" = Linatella caudata Gmelin 1791 triton shell | |
Vermetus cristatus Martin 1879 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767 ark | |
"Cardium papillosum" = Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum
"Cardium papillosum" = Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum Poli 1781 cockle | |
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam |