Dar es Soltan (Pleistocene of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 9.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 9.8° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Stearns and Thurber (1965) dated molluscs from this horizon to be greater than 300,000. Note that U/Th ages from molluscs are controversial.

• 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 127593: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Cassis (Semicassis) saburon" = Semicassis
"Cassis (Semicassis) saburon" = Semicassis snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura haemastoma murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella "sp. C" Lamarck 1799 snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Nassa (Arcularia) circumcincta" = Nassarius (Arcularia)
"Nassa (Arcularia) circumcincta" = Nassarius (Arcularia) snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa "sp. A" Röding 1798 true whelk
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella intermedia Murray 1857 limpet
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis" = Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus
"Trochus (Gibbula) umbilicalis" = Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus Gmelin 1791 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra corallina, "Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata
"Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 clam
Donax vittatus da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium tuberculatum, "Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule" = Cerastoderma edule
Cardium tuberculatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima subauriculata Montagu 1808 file clam