Where: Azores, Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 25.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• unit A1, MIS 5.5; 13 vertical profiles
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. P. Ávila, R. Amen, J. M. N. Azevedo, M. Cachão, and F. García-Talavera. 2002. Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores). Açoreana 9:343-370 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128466: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 09.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
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Jujubinus pseudogravinae top snail | |
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet | |
Littorina striata periwinkle | |
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices moon snail | |
Setia subvaricosa snail | |
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk | |
Conus cf. ermineus Born 1778 cone shell | |
Ocinebrina aciculata, "Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
Ocinebrina aciculata murex snail
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail Stramonita haemastoma haemastoma
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Bivalvia | |
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam | |
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam | |
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam |