Velerín Sands, Estepona (Pliocene of Spain)

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 small sandy lens occupying unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Stated to be very nearshore or intertidal.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy lens, presumably comprising a clayey sand. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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 80561: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.04.2008, edited by Katherine Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for major groups of gastropods covered in taxonomic treatments. Other major components of fauna (bivalvia) and minor components (e.g. coral) are not included. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and use of species and subgenus resolution assignments.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
Tricolia pullus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Bolma granosa Borson 1821 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Emarginula fissura Linnaeus 1758 snail
Diodora graeca Linnaeus 1758 snail
Diodora gibberula Lamarck 1822 snail
Diodora italica Defrance 1820 snail
 Lepetellida - Scissurellidae
Scissurella costata d'Orbigny 1824 snail
 Lepetellida - Anatomidae
Anatoma crispata Fleming 1828 snail
 Lepetellida - Addisoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murexsul constantiae3 murex snail
Dermomurex (Trialatella) jani3 Doderlein 1862 murex snail
Pagodula vaginata3 murex snail
Jaton sowerbyi3 murex snail
Orania turrita3 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Echinophoria intermedia" = Echinophoria intermedium1
"Echinophoria intermedia" = Echinophoria intermedium1 Brocchi 1814 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Cymatium (Monoplex) heptagonum" = Monoplex1, Sassia tuberculifera1, Sassia apenninica1
"Cymatium (Monoplex) heptagonum" = Monoplex1 triton shell
Sassia tuberculifera1 triton shell
Sassia apenninica1 Sassi 1827 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Erato elongata2 Seguenza 1880 snail
Erato cerulii2 Schilder 1933 snail
Cleotrivia esteponica2 Fehse and Landau 2002 snail
"Trivia coccinelloides" = Trivia (Trivia) coccinelloides2 de Sowerby 1823 snail
Trivia frigida2 Schilder 1932 snail
Niveria parvavellana2 Sacco 1894 snail
Niveria permixta2 de Cristofori and Jan 1832 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Pedicularia deshayesiana2 Seguenza 1865 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
Hespererato cocconii2 Schilder 1933 snail
"Erato pernana" = Erato (Eratopsis) pernana2 Sacco 1894 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella caerulea Linnaeus 1758 limpet
 Patellida - Lottiidae