Where: Spain (36.4° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Early Piacenzian or Middle Pliocene of Guerra Merchán et al. (2002). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Landau & Marquet
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Landau and Marquet. REPOSITORY: Landau personal collection, Marquet personal collection, and possivly the Institut. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.
Primary reference: B. Landau, R. Marquet, and M. Grigis. 2003. The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda. Paleontos 3:1-87 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80559: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Calliotropis peregrina snail
Danilia rosa snail | |
Addisonia excentrica snail | |
Rimula capuliformis snail
Emarginula rosea Bell 1824 snail | |
Anatoma umbilicata snail | |
Bolma fimbriata snail
Bolma granosa Borson 1821 snail | |
Cirsonella romettensis snail | |
Gibbula magus top snail
Calliostoma miliaris top snail
Microgaza cuadrae top snail
Trochaclis versiliensis top snail | |
Tricolia miniata snail | |
Solariella amabilis snail | |
Heliconoides inflata Orbigny 1836 snail | |
Styliola subula, Diacria trispinosa, Cuvierina (Cuvierina) ludbrooki, Cuvierina (Cuvierina) astesana, Clio (Clio) pyramidata, Cavolinia floridana, Cavolinia landani, "Cavolinia vendryesiana" = Cavolinia marginata, Cavolinia tridentata
Styliola subula Quoy and Gaimard 1827 snail
Diacria trispinosa de Blainville 1821 snail
Cuvierina (Cuvierina) astesana Rang 1829 snail
Clio (Clio) pyramidata Linnaeus 1767 snail
Cavolinia floridana snail
Cavolinia landani snail
"Cavolinia vendryesiana" = Cavolinia marginata Bronn 1962 snail
Cavolinia tridentata Niebuhr 1775 snail | |
Acmaea virginea limpet | |
Ansates pellucidum limpet | |
Oxygyrus keraudreni Lesueur 1817 snail
Protatlanta rotundata Gabb 1873 snail |