Santa Maria Island, Praia A1 (Pleistocene of Portugal)

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

• strongly cemented calcareous fossiliferous basal-conglomerate (unit A1) which thickness strongly varies along the outcrop, reaching a maximum of 0.4 m.

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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone
Haliotis tuberculata coccinea
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus cf. ermineus Born 1778 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ocinebrina aciculata, "Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
Stramonita haemastoma haemastoma
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam