Agadir east of lighthouse (Pleistocene of Morocco)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 12-15 m; I think this is above current sea level

• 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 127615: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 19.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea Montfort 1808 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax trunculus Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Meretrix chione venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata
"Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Erycinidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata
"Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata Linnaeus 1758 clam