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 | |
Fissurella reticulata snail | |
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea
"Trivia europaea" = Trivia (Trivia) europaea Montfort 1808 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Donax trunculus Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Meretrix chione venus clam | |
"Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata
"Mactra (Spisula) subtruncata" = Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
Pythina mactroides clam | |
"Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata
"Venericardia antiquata" = Cardites antiquata Linnaeus 1758 clam |