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.
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Gastropoda |
| Trochoidea - Solariellidae |
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| Trochoidea - Trochidae |
Calliostoma miliaris, Calliostoma cf. subexcavata, Calliostoma tauromiliare, Calliostoma opisthostenus, " Calliostoma conulus" = Calliostoma (Calliostoma) conulus, Jujubinus montagui, Jujubinus annamarieae, Jujubinus exasperatus, Gibbula magus, Gibbula pliosubcinctus, Gibbula fanulum, Phorcus richardi, Callumbonella paolucciae, Callumbonella suturale, Microgaza fischeri, Microgaza cuadrae, Microgaza cf. taurinensis, Diloma patula, Clanculus corallinus, Clanculus verai
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| Trochoidea - Phasianellidae |
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| Trochoidea - Skeneidae |
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| Trochoidea - Turbinidae |
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| Lepetellida - Addisoniidae |
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| Lepetellida - Fissurellidae |
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| Lepetellida - Scissurellidae |
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| Lepetellida - Anatomidae |
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| Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae |
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| Patellida - Lottiidae |
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| Patellogastropoda - Patellidae |
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| Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae |
" Cymatium (Monoplex) heptagonum" = Monoplex1 triton shell
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| Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae |
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| Neogastropoda - Muricidae |
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| Neogastropoda - Nassariidae |
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| Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae |
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| Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae |
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| Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae |
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