Where: Spain (36.7° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 4.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Late Pleistocene raised beach terraces on Jurassic limestones and Permo-Triassic sandstones. THICKNESS: 30 cm, on raised beach 0.9-1.2 m above sea level. AGE: Late Pleistocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Vera-Peláez et al.
• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors. REPOSITORY: Museo Municpal de Paleontogía, Malaga.
Primary reference: J. L. Vera-Peláez, M. C. Lozano-Francisco, J. Ramos Fernández and Y. M. Cortéz Sánchez. 2004. Molluscos del Tirreniense (Pleistoceno Superior) de la Playa la Araña-Cala de Moral (Málaga). Revista Española de Paleontología 19(2):251-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76579: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinidae indet. Gray 1825 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Diodora italica Defrance 1820 snail | |
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Gibbula "sp. 1" Risso 1826 top snail
Gibbula "sp. 2" Risso 1826 top snail
Jujubinus striatus Linnaeus 1767 top snail | |
Rissoa variabilis snail
Alvania (Alvania) pagodula Bucquoy et al. 1884 snail | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
Gibberula miliaria snail
Gibberula sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Conus mediterraneus Hwass 1792 cone shell | |
Bela nebula snail | |
Nassarius gibbosulus, Nassarius reticulatus, Nassarius "sp. 1", Nassarius "sp. 2", Nassarius "sp. 3"
Nassarius gibbosulus snail
Nassarius reticulatus snail
Nassarius "sp. 1" Duméril 1806 snail
Nassarius "sp. 2" Duméril 1806 snail
Nassarius "sp. 3" Duméril 1806 snail | |
Littorina (Melaraphe) neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
Monophorus perversus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Cerithium (Thericium) rupestre Risso 1826 snail
Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Bittium reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail | |
"Iberus alonensis" = Helix (Iberus)
"Iberus alonensis" = Helix (Iberus) slug | |
Bivalvia | |
Neopycnodonte cochlear Poli 1795 oyster | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) sp. da Costa 1778 clam | |
Striarca lactea clam | |
Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Ctena (Ctena) decussata" = Codakia (Ctena) decussata
"Ctena (Ctena) decussata" = Codakia (Ctena) decussata Costa 1829 clam | |
Rudicardium tuberculatum cockle
Acanthocardia paucicostata Sowerby 1834 cockle | |
Tapes sp. Mühlfeld 1811 venus clam
Callista sp. Poli 1791 venus clam
Chamelea gallina Linneus 1758 venus clam |